Just released (25 February) is my collection of reports from all corners of Africa - the publisher writes:
Even after five years in Africa, there are simple people and their stories that fascinate the correspondent Marc Engelhardt most. Their stories best describe the consequences of "big" events or simmering conflicts actually have. There is the librarian Saif Islam, seeing in the Mauritanian desert centuries-old books must forfeit even though he loves her so much that he can sing the verses contained in it. The Ugandan adolescents Deogratius Okema, who worships the child killer, who themselves abducted and forced to murder his own family. And the Berlin Architect Martin Grütter, trying in one of the most inhospitable parts of Africa alone, to provide development assistance - and to fail in one's own willingness to risk.
The intangibility of Africa can be understood only by its actors, the small heroes, tragic loser and quirky personalities. Their stories, Marc Engelhardt wrote down, creating a personal image of Africa from a continent where there are not only hardship and suffering, but also daring and imagination, a continent on the death not only but is lived in particular. ISBN 978-3-85452-955-2
Picus Verlag, 132 pages, hardcover, 14,90 Euro
(Clicking on the headline out of the book at amazon.de)
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