I just finished reading Alexandra Fuller’s book about her childhood in Africa entitled Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight. She was born in 1969, so she really catches only the end of the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean conflict, and she was just a child. But she does an excellent job of evoking the desperation and harshness that the war and its aftermath created.
After Rhodesia lost the war, her family stayed in Zimbabwe for a short while and then moved to Mali, (Malawi), Tanzania, and Zambia. It is a sad trek across a sad continent.
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