The legacy of Ryszard Kapuscinski

"He was the biggest Polish author of the second half of the 20th century. He was a chronicler of despotism, of conflicts, of third-world misery and of our world's blindness", writes Pol Mathil on the Polish journalist's capacity to analyse the conflicts and revolutions that he covered. "Kapuscinski has left an exceptional legacy. But though his books remain, the man will be missed. In the developing world, he was much more than an important author; he was a sort of prophet. For the Poles he was a sage able to teach them to tell good from bad, true from false, fair from unfair, to decode the mechanisms of power, of all forms of power and those in power. He was a moral authority of a kind that no longer exists."

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