We are all Zimbabweans now
By: James Kilgore
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821419854
Subjects: Politics and government; Americans; FICTION / General; Social conditions; Graduate students; Fiction
Description: "We Are All Zimbabweans Now is a political thriller set in Zimbabwe in the hopeful, early days of Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the late 1980s. When Ben Dabney, a Wisconsin graduate student, arrives in the country, he is enamored with Mugabe and the promises of his government's model of racial reconciliation. But as Ben begins his research and delves more deeply into his hero's life, he finds fatal flaws. Ultimately Ben reconsiders not only his understanding of Mugabe, but his own professional and personal life"--
Notes: Originally published: Roggebaai, South Africa : Uzumi, 2009.