Peter Godwin

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For the singer, see Peter Godwin (singer)

Peter Godwin wrote Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, a memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia in 1970s, as the British colony collapsed to become Zimbabwe. Mukiwa won the Apple/Esquire/Waterstones award, and the Orwell Prize.

Godwin was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times (London) and later a documentary maker for BBC TV.

His other publications include:

  • "Rhodesians never Die" The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c1970 - 1980 (which he co-authored with Ian Hancock).
  • "The Three of Us" (co-authored with Joanna Coles.)
  • "Wild at Heart - Man and Beast in Southern Africa," (with photographs by Chris Johns.)
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