Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He worked as a human rights lawyer, and a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and the BBC. He has authored seven non-fiction books including Mukiwa, which won the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire, Apple, Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia and served as President of PEN American Center. His latest book is Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars.
Peter Godwin
Articles by Peter Godwin
Monday May 16
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Fist of Empowerment 2 April 2008 Deep into the night, in pursuit of the westward escaping sun, we fly into a fogbank, where the cold Atlantic breakers curdle upon the warm West African shore below. Consoled, somehow, to have reached the continent of my birth, I lay down my book and fall uncomfortably asleep,