Book description
Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical
and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes
and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of
a vicioud civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a
journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule, he
discovered a land stalked by death and danger.
Peter Godwin is an award-winning author and journalist. Born and
raised in Zimbabwe, after military service he studied law at Cambridge
University and international relations and African history at Oxford.
He was a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and a
founding presenter and writer of Assignment/Correspondent, BBC
television's premier foreign affairs programme. Mukiwa was an
international bestseller and winner of the George Orwell Prize for
political writing and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstone's Non-Fiction
Award. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, about his return to
Zimbabwe as it began to collapse into chaos, is also published by
Picador. He lives in New York.
