by Peter Godwin
Extremely well-written story about family, identity, and what we owe each other, set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe and Mugabe's dictatorship.
I was debating on whether to read this book, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, or the author's book on his childhood growing up in Rhodesia Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africafirst. This one focuses upon his father's life in Zimbabwe, and how he ended up there. I believe I made the wrong ...
Godwin's memoir of growing up in Zimbabwe is a good companion piece to Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood; like Fuller's autobiography, Godwin's works best in the childhood segments. Godwin captures changing attitudes and moods over time and shows the sociopolitical ch...
An exceptional memoir--fascinating, insightful, moving, and completely engrossing.
I didn’t expect this book to be quite so personal or so much about the author’s relationship with his parents and their history. It did give quite a look at what life was like in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. I had heard in the news of the take-over of the white farms in Zimbabwe and the unbelievable inflation...
It's a book about Zimbabwe written by Peter Godwin. He describes how a country which was going to be modern, fall down. After getting freedom in 1980 Zimbabwe had the most educated middle-class in Africa. Also it's economy has been even better than RPA's. But Mugabe changed the country - white men ...
Zimbabwe during the past thirty years seems to have been a miserable place to live. Inflation caused prices of even the most basic items and services to soar. The government instituted a program where white-owned farms were taken over by black farmers, leaving the white farmers without a home and wi...
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