Rhodesia, 1964. A small boy witnesses the murder of his neighbour, killed by the African guerrillas known as the Crocodile Gang. It is the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa. In, Mukiwa (Shona for 'white man') Peter Godwin has written a vivid and exciting account of growing up in a British colony rapidly collapsing into chaos. Seen through the eyes of a child, Eastern Rhodesia was a magical and frightening world of leopard hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes, forest fires and the post-mortems conducted by his mother. But through the eyes 'of an adolescent, a boysoldier caught in the middle of a vicious civil war and finally an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority black .rule, it became a land stalked by death and danger. Mukiwa is a sad, funny, savagely violent memoir of growing up in, returning to and loving Africa. It is a beautifully evocative book with the pace and action of a thriller, and will be an important addition to the literature of Southern Africa, alongside Rian Malan's 'My Traitor's Heart' and Alan Paton's 'Cry, The Beloved Country'.
Published	1996
Other information	First Edition Paperback

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