Renowned journalist Sokol Balla has promoted his latest book "The White Horse Goes to Africa" at "Aleksandër Moisiu" University, published under the logo of the UET Press publishing house.
What message does the book convey about the author's passion and travels?
Balla has shared with the students of the Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences parts of the writing process, which at first glance appears like a book with travel notes, but in fact reveals much more about the author's life, his passion for travel and the events in the places he visited.
Under the watchful eye of a journalist, these travels around the world, from Etosha Park in Namibia to Greenland, go beyond describing places, continents, events or historical characters; they bring out the evolution of the author himself.
As he points out in the introduction to the pages: "This publication is not a travel book nor a geopolitical analysis of history, it is simply the world as I saw it in three decades of endless travels around it."
The author has confessed that the title is dedicated to his mother for the simple reason that she was the one who pushed him to travel a little earlier than others.
And since then, he has never been separated from discoveries near and far, common and special.
"The title also has a small story about who Sokoli was. Not the Sokoli we all see today, but the Sokoli who played in the neighborhood and was a simple boy from Tirana," the author confessed.
Beyond the discussion about the book, the political and broadcast journalist hard talk It also touched on other topics on recent national and international developments.
With a long experience in the media, initially in print and later on television as a talk show host. prime time, Balla has published several publications over the years, such as:
- “33”;
- “The game that changed Albania”
- "Free speech, a European challenge"
- "Evidence of the Coup"
- "Anti-Albanian".
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