Through the darkness: A life in Zimbabwe - Softcover

Todd, Judith Garfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177022002X ISBN 13: 9781770220027

Publisher: Zebra Press, 2007

Synopsis

For more than three decades, Judith Todd has been at loggerheads with successive governments of Zimbabwe. After being jailed and then exiled by Ian Smith’s regime, she returned to her country in 1980 and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe’s ills, Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF) were increasingly becoming the problem. As the country slid into social and economic decline, Todd’s position as director of a local development agency gave her a unique vantage point from which to observe the increasing arrogance and cruelty of Zimbabwe’s leaders and the suffering and struggles of ordinary citizens. Peopled with household names from diplomats and politicians to international correspondents and liberation leaders, Through the Darkness takes readers from the family ranch outside Bulawayo to Buckingham Palace, from the bowels of Zimbabwe’s prisons to the inner sanctums of Mugabe’s cabinet. It is also the story of the country’s silenced people – their courage, their irrepressible humour, their hopes and their feelings of betrayal. Drawing from journals, letters and documents, this is a fascinating personal account of life in Zimbabwe.

About this title

Synopsis:

Judith Todd, the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, erstwhile prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia, spent eight years in exile in Britain as an opponent of white minority rule in Ian Smith's Rhodesia. She returned to Zimbabwe shortly before independence in 1980, and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe's ills, Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party were increasingly becoming the problem. As the country slid into economic and social decline, Todd had a front-row view from her position as director of a local development agency. Over the first 25 years of Mugabe's rule, she kept journals, notes and copies of letters and documents from which she has compiled an intensely personal account of life in Zimbabwe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zebra Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 177022002X
• ISBN 13: 9781770220027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472