Mukiwa

GODWIN,P

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Author
GODWIN,P
Publish Date
01/01/2005
Subtitle
A White Boy in Africa
Book Type
paperback
Number of Pages
418
Publisher Name
GROVE
ISBN-10
0802141927
ISBN-13
9780802141927
citemno
077600
SKU
9780802141927

Description

Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve of war in Rhodesia to his experience fighting in the civil war that he detests to his adventures as a journalist in the new state of Zimbabwe, covering the bloody return to Black rule. With each transition Godwin's voice develops, from that of a boy to a young man to an adult returning to his homeland. This tale of the savage struggle between blacks and whites as the British Colonial period comes to an end is set against the vividly painted background of the myserious world of South Africa.