When he landed for the first time in Africa, in 1958, the great Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was literally dazzled:“The shock was the light, intense and bright. The ancient history of this continent is just as exotic as the debauchery of the sun. Because, to contradict a regrettable cliché, A
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