Peter sees the “functioning schools, a near-universal education system producing Africa’s most literate population”. When she does visit Zimbabwe with Peter, she “compares up, to the First World, where privileges are treated as rights.” His wife Joanna did not and has no desire to live there or to visit. Journalist and author Peter Godwin grew up in Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe. Two so very different situations, but so much the same. The crocodile was also referred to by Winston Churchill as he warns his people “Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping it will eat you last”. There was an eclipse of the sun when the independent Zulu nation was defeated by the British. A country where it is too dangerous for Peter Godwin to admit to being a journalist, and from which his sister Georgina, a television and radio journalist, fled to England.Īn eclipse of the sun is a bad omen to the Zulu - “it drew down terrible times”.
Where Peter Godwin was born and where his parents George and Mary lived all of their adult lives. A country where repressive laws limit the scope of foreign journalists, where the BBC has no correspondent. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, by Peter Godwin, was published April 17, 2007, on the 27th anniversary of the independence from British colonial rule of the African country of Zimbabwe ruled by President Robert Mugabe, from the capital city of Harare.
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