num_pages: 418
description: A poignant, beautifully evocative, savagely violent memoir in the tradition of My Traitor's Heart. Rhodesia, 1946: A small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas, marking the beginning of white rule in Africa. Now, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid and moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.
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: Atlantic Monthly Pr