Description
In mid-2008, after 30 years of tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe met his politburo. He had just lost an election. But instead of conceding power, he was persuaded to launch a campaign of terror to cower his citizens. Journalist & author Peter Godwin was one of the few observers to slip into the country & bear witness to what happened next.Following on from his compelling and moving memoirs, Mukiwa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, this is a personal journey through the country Peter Godwin grew up in and knows so well-a landscape and a people, grotesquely altered, laid waste by a raging despot.
At considerable risk, he travels widely to see the torture bases, the burned villages, the death squads, the opposition leaders in hiding, the last white farmers, the churchmen and the diplomats putting their own lives on the line to stop the carnage.
Told with Godwin's brilliant eye for detail and natural story-telling gifts, this tale of corruption and violence is punctuated by moments of humour and goodwill, and populated by extraordinary characters whose lives have been shaped by The Fear.
ISBN:9780330507769
