The Web Site of Krzysztof Gajos
This web site includes mostly reports from the various trips I have taken over the years and a few reviews of some recently read books. Below is a random sample from each category.
In July of 2002 we spent a couple of weeks on Iceland crossing the largest glacier of Europe.
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"Death And The King's Horseman"
by Wole Soyinka
This is another short play by the Nobel prize winning Nigerian author
Wole
Soyinka. Although delivered in a witty and apparently light way,
it addresses a very important issue of conflicting value systems in
the colonial Africa. In this true story a British District Officer in
an ancient Yoruba city in Nigeria intervenes in the local affairs
believing that he is saving a life but instead he ruins several.
As Soyinka himself passionately points out, this play is not about a clash of cultures. This play asks the question what makes the European invaders of Africa believe that their morality is superior to that of the natives. Indeed, Olunde, a young Nigerian man educated in Britain helps to make the point by pointing out the bizare nature of European "morality" that allows the atrocities of World War II to occur.
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