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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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Jack Hayes
reviewed Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa on June 30, 2020
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
About 3 years ago I tried this author's other book, The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe but really struggled to get into the highly political story.
This one however was much easier to connect with as it was written in the form of a memoir following the author's childhood in Zimbabwe, his subsequent stint in the army and finally his time as a lawyer and journalist during the change of government in the 1980's.
I have to say my favourite sections were that of his childhood. Particularly when young Peter's nanny brought him to the Apostolic church. His childhood memories reminded me a little of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe which is hands down my favourite book of Zimbabwe.
As Peter got older and got forced to serve time in the military the narrative changed - as expected - to provide more insight into the politics and guerrilla warfare that happened all over Zimbabwe. How the locals suffered, stuck between the military and guerrillas with no relief from either side.
I found it quite ironic that as a lawyer he had to defend the same war criminals he fought against in the army.
As with all the books I read about Zimbabwe there are moments of hope but also many many accounts of atrocities, with no one coming out the winner.
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