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Intensely moving - a jolly good read! Upon finishing this magnificent piece of work, my mind was curiously turned to another book by an African writer which I also read this year and which has the word "sun" in its title. I remembered the haunting novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Half of a Yellow Sun". While the latter is a fictionalised account of events taking place in her native Nigeria well before she was old enough to know about them (the Biafra war), "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun" is a harrowing personal journey through Zimbabwe, a... more info
Heart-breaking and deeply moving Peter Godwin was born in Rhodesia, and in 1996 he published 'Makiwa', a gripping account of how he grew up in that country. He was conscripted into the Rhodesian army to fight against the independence movement, by which time he felt that he was fighting in an unjust cause. He eventually got to England, became a journalist, and in 1981, now based in the United States, he returned to what in 1980 had become independent Zimbabwe, partly because his parents were still living there and partly because he loved... more info
Well worth reading I received this book last week and haven't put it down until I finished it yesterday morning. The last few chapters had me in a flood of tears...not only because of the death in the author's family but because of the sadness of the whole Zimbabwe situation and the effect it has had on millions of people's lives. Well worth reading.
Better Understand Africa with this Sensitive Masterpiece This is the second of Peter Godwin's two books on his family's experience of Rhodesia-into-Zimbabwe. You would do well to read them in the reverse order; the Crocodile followed by Mukiwa. Mukiwa on its own or read first is but an interesting account of Godwin's earlier life in the white-haven of Rhodesia and of his growing awareness that change was inevitable and deserved. There are many such accounts. However if read as an epilogue, Mukiwa, confirms the right of Godwin to be the author of Crocodile and... more info
