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Andrew Meldrum
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Pages: 288 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0719566436
Pub: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Pub date: 2005-03-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 125001
Reader Reviews:
A blot on the continent (0/0 people found this helpful)
I have read a few books on Zimbabwe, having been born there, and found this book to be a true account of the declining state of a once beautiful country. In fact, Andrew paints a kinder picture than the one experienced by the average Zimbabwean day to day. If you want to find out how a country that once fed just about all of southern africa but is now dependent on handouts and how an economy (200% inflation at time of Andrew's writing but now closer to 4000% in 2007 - exchange rate then Z$250 to £1 but now a staggering Z$150 000 to £1..and rising weekly) that was the envy of Africa during santion years..then read this. and yes, Andrew, although arriving full of optimism...soon gives way to the weary certainty that most zmbabweans now living abroad feel...utter disappointment and sadness at seeing a once thriving country full of hope...systematically dismantled by a tinpot dictator and his band of uneducated cronies!!!!
How to end up in a police state (1/1 people found this helpful)
I was in Zimbabwe on a holiday for a week in Victoria Falls a few years ago and could feel the tension in Zimbabwe (even in such a high profile tourist location). It made me interested in reading about the country and how it ended up in such a state.
This books is excellent account of how to get from a land of optimism in the initial years after independence to a police state run for the benefit of one man and his chronies.
It is a factual account; woven around real characters but it keeps you turning that pages like a thriller as the idealists at the centre of it go from normal living to a life of danger and confrontation of evil.
You can't get any better than this (10/10 people found this helpful)
A superb novel. Brilliantly written, so much so that even a novice in the subject of the political, economic and social history of Zimbabwe, is left with the whole true picture of what really is happening to that beautiful land. Meldrum is definitely not a chancer, but a true professional who obviously has a passion for what he does. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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