Peter Godwin is a writer born in 1957 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), of English and Polish Jewish parents. He wrote "Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa", a memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s and 1970s, as the former British colony collapsed to become Zimbabwe. "Mukiwa" won the Apple/Esquire/Waterstones award, and the Orwell Prize. In 2006, he published a second memoir, "When A Crocodile Eats The Sun", … Wikipedia
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