BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
344 pp $24.99
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
by Peter Godwin
Grove Press, 1996 418 pp $14 (paper)
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight:
An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
Random House, 2001 315 pp $13.95 (paper)
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
by Doris Lessing
HarperPerennial, 1992 442 pp $13 (paper)
The Stone Virgins
by Yvonne Vera
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
184 pp $12 (paper)
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
344 pp $24.99
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
by Peter Godwin
Grove Press, 1996 418 pp $14 (paper)
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight:
An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
Random House, 2001 315 pp $13.95 (paper)
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
by Doris Lessing
HarperPerennial, 1992 442 pp $13 (paper)
The Stone Virgins
by Yvonne Vera
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
184 pp $12 (paper)
ZIMBABWE was known as the “jewel of Africa,” as Samora Machel, the Marxist president of Mozambique, told Robert Mugabe when the new nation won its independence in 1980. As the second-most-ind...
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