Prize-winning author, Peter Godwin, tells Peter Stanford “about the Africa his family loved – and lost.”
“It is always, it is said, a mistake (except in the eyes of your publisher) to follow up a successful book with more of the same. But that is essentially what Godwin has done. A decade after Mukiwa, his account of growing up a white boy in what was then Rhodesia, won prizes and plaudits, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun takes up the story of his ongoing love affair with Africa. It chronicles Robert Mugabe's cruel retribution on his country for voting against him in a 2000 referendum, as Godwin frames the tale of the disintegration of his homeland with an account of his father's last years in poverty in Harare.” – from “Peter Godwin: Truth in Black and White,” by Peter Stanford, The Independent
