num_pages: 418
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 vicious 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.
language: English
title: Mukiwa : A White Boy in Africa
titlecomplete: Mukiwa : A White Boy in Africa
genres: Biography, War, Coming Of Age, Zimbabwe, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Africa, History
ratings_count: 4314
publisher: Picador