Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

by Peter Godwin

Book Overview

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 innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve of war in Rhodesia to his experience fighting in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087113621X
• ISBN13: 9780871136213
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"