Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
A Memoir, Biography, Africa book. In those days we called African men boys. We had cook boys and garden boys, however old they might...
The Barnes & Noble ReviewJanuary 1998Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa is the story of Peter Godwin's experiences growing up in Rhodesia. He recounts the story of that country's violent transformation into Zimbabwe, as well as his own personal metamorphoses from privileged boy to reluctant soldier to investigative journalist. Godwin's story begins, "I think I first realized something was wrong when our next door neighbor, Oom Piet Oberholzer, was murdered. I must have been about five then. It was still five years before the...
Download or read Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 432 pages
- ISBN: 9780802141927 / 0
BJwQEUF_KPW.pdf
More About Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Godwin wrote Mukiwa as three "books" within a book. The first tells of his childhood and youth in colonial Rhodesia as it was crumbling and guerrillas were becoming progressively more active. The second book relates the period of his required national service, which he entered with considerable misgiving. He chose to serve in the police... The first parts of Mukiwa show us Africa through a child's eyes: a world of danger, magic and death. The child's eye sees death as if through a pane of glass, an interesting (and sometimes) amusing spectacle, full of pungent smells and revolting sights, while staying ignorant of the consequences, cocooned in his little world of private... In those days we called African men boys. We had cook boys and garden boys, however old they might be. African nannies we called girls. I think I quite purposely avoided memoirs written by white Africans. I was afraid of their 'good old days' nostalgia and I had no interest in hearing about their blissful colonial childhoods.This, however,...
