Mukiwa - A White Boy in Africa

Peter Godwin

MacMillan

1996

418 páginas

13h 56m

ISBN-10: 0333671503

Rhodesia, 1964. A small boy witnesses the murder of his neighbor, killed by the African guerrillas known as the Crocodile Gang. It is the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa. In "Mukiwa" (Shona for "white man") Peter Godwin has written a vivid and exciting account of growing up in a British colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.
Seen through the eyes of a child, Eastern Rhodesia was a magical and frightening world of leopard hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes, forest fires and the post-mortems conducted by his mother. Bu through the eyes of an adolescent , a boy-soldier caught in the middle of a vicious civil war and finally an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to a majority black rule, it became a land stalked by death and danger.
"Mukiwa" is a sad and funny, savagely violent memoir of growing up in, returning to and loving Africa. it is beautifully evocative book with pace and action of a thriller, and will be an importatn addition to the literature of Southern Africa, alongside Rian Malan's "My Traitor's Heart" ad Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country".