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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 16.00When the ship veered into the Cape of Good Hope, Mum caught the spicy, heady scent of Africa on the changing wind. She smelled the people: raw onions and salt, the smell of people who are not afraid to eat meat, and who smoke fish over open fires on the beach and who pound maize into meal and who work out-of-doors. She held me up to face the earthy... more...
The Last Resort
Short Books 2011; US$ 13.11WINNER, BEST TRAVEL BOOK 2010 ? BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS ?A memoir that is both funny and deeply moving... Rogers? compassion, humour and frequent bemusement give this heart-stoppingly good book its life force.? The Times In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story... more...
Mugabe - My Part in His Victory
Grosvenor House Publishing 2011; US$ 8.74Mugabe-my part in his victory' is a light-hearted but factually based look at national service in the Rhodesian police force immediately prior to Robert Mugabe?s accession to power in Zimbabwe. It follows the transition of Chris Walmsley and his university friends from raw, high spirited recruits to disciplined and competent policemen. Not that this... more...
Twenty Years of Independence in Zimbabwe
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 148.00This collection offers comprehensive insights into pivotal areas of concern regarding developments in Zimbabwe since its independence. By disclosing the intra-elite competition, assessing the performance of Zimbabwe's economy and explaining how the country's natural resources have been managed, we can better understand the ruling ZANU-PF's increasing... more...
Catastrophe
Zed Books 2011; US$ 26.95In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence became a brutal police state less than thirty years later. Beginning with the British conquest and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date... more...
Morgan Tsvangirai: At the Deep End
Eye Books 2011; US$ 14.99Morgan Tsvangirai's dramatic political battle with Zimbabwe?s dictatorial monolith Robert Mugabe stands as one of the most intriguing and important world events of recent times?this is his autobiography From village life as the son of a humble carpenter to struggling for power with Mugabe as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, this is Morgan... more...
Bitter Harvest
John Blake Publishing 2008; US$ 15.27In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black... more...
Bitter Harvest
John Blake 2008; US$ 12.99For more than a decade, Ian Smith served as Rhodesia's Prime Minister during the era of white minority rule. Following his death in 2007, he is still a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions. To some he is a leader whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labor government of Britain in the 1960s. To others... more...
Selous Scouts
Helion & Company 2011; US$ 16.99"Its members consisted of some of the finest guerrilla-fighting men in the western world, unconventional in many ways, disregardful of parade-ground discipline, unorthodox in their dress, yet a force so tightly knit in the face of danger that those who knew anything about them could only marvel" - The Citizen. Formed in 1973 by the legendary... more...
The Front Line Runs through Every Woman
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 29.95By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed... more...
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