Peter de Lissovoy
ASIN: B009NT88LM
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 480
What was it like in white supremacist Rhodesia before it became today’s troubled Zimbabwe? With the “winds of change blowing” all over Africa, “Iron Man” Ian Smith and his White Front had seized control of Rhodesia in 1965, determined to keep it “God and white man’s country.” By the early 70s, barely eighty years after Rhodes's defeat of the Matabele King Lobengula and the British South Africa Company’s conquest of Zambezia, there was unrest in Salisbury and Bulawayo, and the Matabele and Mashona fighters were in the hills again over the borders. In The Angels of Zimbabwe, readers are taken back to the early 1970s to join Joe, a young American, as he hitchhikes down the Great North Road through central Africa to Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia, one of the last bastions of white rule in Africa. Managing to swing a job on The Clarion, a local white newspaper, Joe soon joins the ZANU ...