Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

by PeterGodwin (Author)

Synopsis

Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicioud civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule, he discovered a land stalked by death and danger.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 05 Jan 2007

ISBN 10: 0330450107
ISBN 13: 9780330450102
Book Overview: The award-winning memoir of a white boy growing up in Rhodesia as it went through a bloody transition to majority rule

Author Bio
Peter Godwin is an award-winning author and journalist. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, after military service he studied law at Cambridge University and international relations and African history at Oxford. He was a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and a founding presenter and writer of Assignment/Correspondent, BBC television's premier foreign affairs programme. Mukiwa was an international bestseller and winner of the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstone's Non-Fiction Award. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, about his return to Zimbabwe as it began to collapse into chaos, is also published by Picador. He lives in New York.