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Mukiwa

A White Boy in Africa

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By: Peter Godwin
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Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written "a classic of its genre" (Sunday Telegraph), a vivid and moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.

In unforgettable tales of innocence lost under African skies, we follow Godwin's awakening to the often savage struggle between Whites and Blacks, his horror when he is forced to fight in a civil war he detests, and his experiences as a journalist covering the country's violent transition to Black rule as Rhodesia's colonial era comes to an end and the new state of Zimbabwe is born from its bloody ashes. Mukiwa is a poignant, compelling memoir and an invaluable addition to the literature of southern Africa.

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Beautifully Written Memoir • Brutally Honest Account • Engaging Storytelling • Balanced Historical Narrative
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The end of Rhodesia and the beginning of Zimbabwe explained by a white boy growing up at the intersection of rural Africa and the waning of two European empires. The author makes a society and place that is no more come alive. I always wondered what it must have been like. After reading it, I believe I understand somewhat more...

Stories that explain, in a beautiful memoir narrated by the author

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I read this years ago. I really like Peter Godwins' books. He has a way of telling his story that is entertaining yet not exaggerated. I think he captured Zimbabwe, or the old Zimbabwe quite well .

Excellent

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great book
well written
nice audible
trip down memory lane
peter godwin good narratar
want more
exellent

great audible well written trip down memory lane

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If you are interested in getting different perspectives on african politics. This is a great book for you. This book was full of all kinds of adventure.

Very independent

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Godwin has an easy to read/listen and engaging style. His account of his time growing up in Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe, is brutally honest and occasionally funny. It is one of those books you’ll read in a day, and then pick some weeks later to reread. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Africa or anyone who wants to read a great story.

Brilliantly written & a gut wrenching account of Zimbabwe’s troubled history

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I had to speed up the read to get it to sound normal. Great story, weird pacing. beautiful descriptions.

good story,

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This is a beautifully written and performed story of a boy's journey into manhood watching the collapse of the British colonial Rhodesia and the beginning of the revolutionary led Zimbabwe. The reader sees through the boys eyes what was happening in his local community. The author portrays the confusion and chaos of the loss of life and land of the white settlers whose families had become prosperous and comfortable in a land far removed than that of their ancestors who came there from Great Britain. As we know, Zimbabwe under the tyrant dictator Mugabe deteriorated. Most of the farm land violently taken over by the revolutionaries, was no longer farmed. The country gradually became one of the poorest in Africa.

A Child's View of Revolution

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This is the second book of Peter Godwin‘s that I have read. This autobiographical board going over his childhood and coming of age and adulthood in Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe. There is both humor and tragedy in this book. I felt it was an excellent read.

An African upbringing and adulthood

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If we could rewind time, how would we have let it work out?Tacitus, a Roman historian, is alleged to have said: “The principal office of history is to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.” I think this book is an effort to achieve this.

What a good account of life in Rhodesia and later Zimbabwe. Just read it

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I wondered when the book came to an end Can we still have hope in Africa?
It depends what you hope for

Emotionally harrowing and intellectually enlightening

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