The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Peter Godwin knows how to tell a good story. After serving as a war correspondent and reporting in 60 ...

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun started out as a work of straightforward journalism—the story, told by the son of Rhodesian white settlers, of the once-prosperous nation’s steep decline at the hands of ...

Memoirs don’t have to be by celebrities or household names to be compelling. Take Peter Godwin, a New York-based writer who was born and raised in the benighted southern African colony of Rhodesia ...

In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin (When a Crocodile Eats the Sun) and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home "to dance on Robert ...

Reporter and author Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and his childhood home is never far from his thoughts. In 1984, after his father had a heart attack, Godwin began a series of ...

Peter Godwin (hardback by Picador, priced £16.99). From the brilliant Zimbabwe-born author and journalist Peter Godwin, When A Crocodile Eats The Sun is the hotly-anticipated follow-up to Mukiwa: A ...

From the opening lines of The Fear , Peter Godwin makes it clear he does not intend to write a neutral chronicle of the land of his birth. “I am on my way home to Zimbabwe, to dance on Robert Mugabe’s ...

Peter Godwin is a journalist and author who grew up in the Southern African nation that now is known as Zimbabwe. But in his youth, that state was known as Rhodesia, in honor of the English visionary ...

Having produced extraordinary works by the likes of Peter Godwin (Mukiwa), Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe’s troubles seem to prove that you need to ...