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Rhodesia, 1964: A young boy stumbles upon the dead body of his neighbor, killed by the African guerrillas known as the Crocodile Gang. It is the beginning of the end of white rule in southern Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the young boy confronted by that murder, has written a vivid and moving account of growing up in a British colony collapsing into chaos.
The story begins in the magnificent mountains of eastern Zimbabwe, where Godwin, the son of a country doctor and an engineer, grew up. Seen through the eyes of a child, the strangeness of Africa is perfectly rendered; it is a magical and frightening world of leopard hunting, witch doctors, lepers, snakes, forest fires, and the human autopsies his mother had to conduct.
But in the eyes of an adolescent, a boy-soldier caught in the middle of a civil war, and finally an adult who has returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition into black rule, it becomes a land stalked by death and danger.
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Personal narratives, Zimbabwe Chimurenga War, 1966-1980, Ethnic relations, History, ZIMBABWE, Chimurenga War (Zimbabwe : 1966-1980) fast (OCoLC)fst01352281, Unabhängigkeitskrieg, Zimbabwe, social conditions, Zimbabwe, history, Zimbabwe, biography, Zimbabwe, race relations, Description and travel, Beats (Persons), FictionPeople
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
November 30, 2004, Grove Press
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0802141927 9780802141927
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Mukiwa: A White Boy In Africa
October 15, 1997, Books on Tape, Inc.
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
May 1997, Perennial
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- 1st HarperPerennial Ed edition
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Mukiwa: a white boy in Africa
1996, Atlantic Monthly Press
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
May 1996, Atlantic Monthly Pr, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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""I think I first realized something was wrong when our next neighbour, oom Piet Oberholzer, was murdered.""
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Een man beschrijft hoe hij vanaf de jaren zestig van de twintigste eeuw zijn land Rhodesië langzaam ziet veranderen in een voor hem onherkenbaar Zimbabwe. Na een verblijf in Engeland keert hij terug als journalist om de geschonden mensenrechten aan de kaak te stellen.
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