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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin  Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful,haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism,When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and...
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
by Alexandra Fuller 
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry...
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's...
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Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa
by Wendy Kann Publisher Comments In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood...
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a government-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his...
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Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence
by Stephen Chan Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index....
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Working on the Margins: Plantation Workers in Zimbabwe (Postcolonial Encounters)
by Blair Rutherford Publisher Comments This book explores the outer margins of postcolonial culture, state, and economy, where the legacy of white settler modernity still dominates the everyday lives of a largely neglected population. The book is an ethnographic analysis which focuses on more...
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
by Lauren St John Publisher Comments This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful...
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Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe
by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime...
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Scribbling the Cat : Travels With an African Soldier (04 Edition)
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry...
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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
by Doris Lessing Publisher Comments A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is brilliant . . . and captures the contradictions of a young country.--New York Times Book...
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What Happens After Mugabe?
by Geoff Hill Publisher Comments After 25 years in power, Robert Mugabe is under increasing pressure to step down and allow democratic reform in Zimbabwe. Amnesty International rates the country among the worst for torture and abuse of human rights, the Commonwealth has suspended...
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The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe
by Luise White Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-136) and index....
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Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa
by Wendy Kann Publisher Comments In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister’s tragic death prompts a woman’s unbidden journey into her turbulent African past A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile...
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The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps
by Owen Sheers Publisher Comments At a family reunion in Wales several years ago, the prize-winning poet Owen Sheers stumbled across the mesmerizing story of his great-great-uncle Arthur Cripps, a mysterious figure who turned from poetry to missionary work in Africa and ultimately became...
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Gender and Land Reform: The Zimbabwe Experience
by Allison Goebel Publisher Comments Zimbabwe's nationalist and post-colonial ambitions have been largely defined by land reform. Allison Goebel assesses Zimbabwe's successes and failures in incorporating gender issues into the broader project of land redistribution. Based on fieldwork in...
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From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
by Gerald Horne Publisher Comments In November 1965, Ian Smith's white minority government in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) made a unilateral declaration of independence, breaking with Great Britain. With a European population of a few hundred thousand dominating an African majority of...
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Unsettled Land (06 Edition)
by Alexander Publisher Comments The Unsettled Land engages with the current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much-needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case. In early 2000, a process of land occupation began in Zimbabwe. It involved the movement of hundreds...
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Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe
by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments The story of what Robert Mugabe did to the once-flourishing African state of Zimbabwe: how it happened, why it happened, and its implications for Africa. Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority...
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Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family & African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 (Social History of Africa)
by Terence Ranger Publisher Comments Paper Edition. This collective biography of a father and his two sons illuminates much of the history of both elite and mass politics in colonial Zimbabwe....
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