Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
by:
Peter Godwin (author)
A poignant, beautifully evocative, savagely violent memoir in the tradition of My Traitor's Heart. Rhodesia, 1946: A small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas, marking the beginning of white rule in Africa. Now, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a...
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A poignant, beautifully evocative, savagely violent memoir in the tradition of My Traitor's Heart. Rhodesia, 1946: A small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas, marking the beginning of white rule in Africa. Now, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid and moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780871136213 (087113621X)
Publish date: May 1st 1996
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Pages no: 418
Edition language: English
An interesting memoir of the author's boyhood in pre-war Rhodesia, his service during the war, and his journalism career after the war in Zimbabwe. The best parts involved his mother's work as a doctor and I would have liked to have learned more about her.
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