Africa is part of me

After reading some more I understood that the reporter did not want to die..."I wanted to live, but life was abandoning me. I wanted to live, but I did not know how to defend my life. My life was going to end in inhuman torment."(p.134)

But continuing with what I was stating in the past blog when I mentioned that the reporter is trying to find explanations I want to highlight a quote that seems really interesting. " I did not regard my stay in Africa as merely a job. I had gone there after years of having to function as a cog in a complex mechanism of instructionsand commands, these and guidelines, and Africa had been, for me, liberation, where-between 37º21`and 34º52`latitude and 17º32 and 51º23`longitude, between Rass Ben Sekka in the north and Needle Point in the south, between Capo Almadi in the west and Raas Xaafun in the east I had left part of myself behind." (p.144) The reporter seems like a stranger when coming back home. Will he find more answers after flyng to South America? After expiriencing new emotions in Africa, it is difficult for the reporter to get used to other things. He left something behind, something that is understood only by him.

I would like to mention that it is very interesting how the author makes the use of history in the book, although sometimes this history gets really monotonous and makes the reader lose it´s interest in the novel. From the moment Kapuscinski gets on the car to travel through the coutry while at civil war and until he reaches his office in France he makes his emotions clear. The book starts getting finally interesting, letting me as a reader understand each and every detail of Kpuscinski´s emotions through out the novel, it is as if I am in the reporters position.

I have to say that many thing are left flying around with no response. For example what happens to Ben Bella and Boumedienne?