The book is composed from one series of storys. The shape is diversified (narrating, third person, converses, notes from the block notes of the reporter) and the language it is consequently. The protagonists and the personages of the history are real also when they are invents to you, in the sense that are the synthesis or the rappresentazione of men, women, children meet to you in the course of repeated and risk travels to you through Africa: guerrillas and missionaries, legionari and prostitutes, pieds-noirs and seekers of diamonds, profughi and heads of state, doctors and journalists, healers and smugglers. They are the history that often do not find place in the pages of newspapers and remain sluices in the note-books. But that they can describe, better than an article or of a test, the plagues, the mysteries, the fascination and the tragedies of a continent to the drift.

The places are multiple: The Congo, Ruanda, Burundi, Gibuti, Algeria, Somalia, southern Sudan, Nuba mounts, Ethiopia, Kenya. The pitiless beauty of a primordiale nature (the desert, the savana, the great rains, the forest, the Congo river, the Nilo, the mounts of the Moon), the misery of the shantytown and the profughi fields, desolation of the villages destroyed from the wars is the background of an incessant fight for the survival in a world where the gestures, the things, the words assume mean you to disowned we, or that we have forgotten. Draft of a extremely godibile work, than law like one exciting narration. It is difficult to forget the Africa told from Porzio.

The author, special envoy of the weekly magazine Panorama, very knows Africa. Its storys are fascinating and touching, very contestualizzati with opportune historical, political and economic references. But once again Africa rhyme with wars, pillages, stupri, misery, hunger.