Mukiwa, Peter Godwin
Mukiwa, Peter Godwin
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Mukiwa
A White Boy in Africa

Author: Peter Godwin

Narrator: Peter Godwin

Unabridged: 14 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2019

Synopsis

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.

About Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six nonfiction books including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book, The Fear, was selected by The New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia and served as President of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City. Follow him on X @PeterGodwin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on January 23, 2011

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Goodreads review by Barbara on February 22, 2021

Part I takes place in Rhodesia and is told through the eyes and voice of a young, privileged white boy. His impressions start at six years old and continue until he finishes high school. He is a very bright and inquisitive young man - his thoughts and ideas are very “grown up”. I wish I had read thi......more

Goodreads review by Philip on September 19, 2008

Peter Godwin certainly has a story to tell. It’s a story of an idyllic, if unusual childhood, a disrupted but eventually immensely successful education, military service and then two careers, one in law, planned but aborted, and then one in journalism, discovered almost by default. Listed like this......more

Goodreads review by Vicky on April 20, 2020

Something for Nothing; Nothing for Something If you were to get yourself run-over by a train, then you would probably blame more than the caboose. If I were to continue my analogy, you could feel justified in going beyond the cars and engine to the track itself, and even the railroad men who laid the......more

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