by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Folio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788441319660
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«Ébano» is Ryszard Kapuściński's book of African reportage, published by Folio in hardback (312 pages, in Spanish).
The author narrates his travels through Africa from the late 1950s, when he arrived as a correspondent to cover the end of the colonial era. Through reportage and portraits, he recreates life in Ghana, the Sahara, Nigeria and Zanzibar, the coups, poverty and violence, but also the people, cultures and encounters that marked his decades on the continent.
Spanish-language edition published in the Biblioteca Viajero ABC collection; the work originally appeared in 1998 under the title «Heban».
Recommended for readers interested in African history, decolonisation and narrative journalism.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
