Harare - Post Report Question and Answers

Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?

Books: The Fear, Peter Godwin (this is a lovely place, but the political violence is shocking, and isnt over). Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight (memoir of a white Zimbabwean living through the war as a child and transitioning to the new world after). - Feb 2020


The abduction and trial of Jestina Mukoko (the fight for human rights in Zimbabwe) - Sep 2017


Dinner with Mugabe (Heidi Holland), The Struggle continues: 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe (David Coltart). - Jul 2017


Books by Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera, Petina Gappah - Apr 2016


Where we have hope. - Jul 2013


"An Elegy for Easterly: Stories" by Petina Gappah, "The Uncertainty of Hope" by Valerie Tagwira, "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa" by Peter Godwin, Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future and The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith - Jun 2009


When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Mukiwa, Scribbling the Cat, Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, Rhodesians Never Die and The Dust Diaries. - Sep 2008


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