![]() ![]() ![]() But for a transitional phase, it’s any port in a storm, really. Even in the medium-term, there really has to be a constitution and proper elections. So we’re all clutching at straws, because whatever will lead to change, people will go for. One used to be the head of the secret police. Well, the two rivals for succession are both deeply compromised characters. There is a messiah complex which comes with having been a liberation leader-you can’t possibly imagine the people ever subsequently turning against you. ![]() ![]() There was hope recently that Africa’s leaders would force Mugabe to step down-or at least to stop arresting and beating the opposition. Godwin, who now lives in New York, spoke with Boris Kachka. (He died not long after the revelation.) So the author of Mukiwa, a book about his white African childhood, ended up writing another very personal account. Then Peter Godwin found out that his father, a paragon of Britishness, had long hidden his past as a Polish Jewish refugee from the Holocaust. W hen a Crocodile Eats the Sun started out as a work of straightforward journalism-the story, told by the son of Rhodesian white settlers, of the once-prosperous nation’s steep decline at the hands of dictator Robert Mugabe, who destroyed its white-owned farms. Photo: Byran O'Brien/The Irish Times/Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company ![]()
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