Robert Mugabe was seen as a liberation hero by the indigenous people of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and received an Honorary Knighthood from the Queen. However he turned one of the most prosperous countries in Africa into a wasteland. The history is interspersed with interviews between a white farmer and the family's black maid who later joined the war veterans in seizing his property. It crosses the bounds between history, biography and autobiography and is a fascinating study of the inner growth through conflict of the farmer and the maid.
(Lynda Johnson - bwl 99 Winter 2021 ) |
