A review by thatclaregirl
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin

3.0

A middle class, white perspective on the troubles in Zimbabwe. Although what his parents and the white farmers went through was horrible and hard, I just don't drum up the same kind of sympathy as in the other books I've read about displaced indigenous Africans. They always had a way out if they wanted it - sure they counted Zimbabwe as home, but they weren't from their originally and had realistic other options and could have easily settled into comfortable lives elsewhere (which is what the author had done). I was hoping for more about Africa and Zimbabwe, but the book was centred on his family's history. It was interesting, but it gave an insight into one family, rather than a microcosm of many.