Blogs in January 1970

The Cry of the Go-Away Bird 1st January 1970

Elsie loves the farm that is her home: there is always tea in the silver teapot, the gin and tonics on the veranda. But growing up a white teenager in post-independence Zimbabwe poses some serious dilemmas. When Mugabe-sponsored war...

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The White Shadow 1st January 1970

Tinashe is a young Shona boy living in a small village in rural Rhodesia. The guerilla war of the late 1960s haunts the bushlands, but it only infrequently affects his quiet life: school, swimming in the river, playing with...

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