![]() ![]() He knows he is dying and he knows as well that there is nowhere else he would rather die than in the remote bush on the continent of his birth. There is a scene at the end of the movie Blood Diamond (2006), set during the recent civil war in Sierra Leone, in which the central character, a white, Rhodesia-born mercenary played by Leonardo DiCaprio, lies slumped against a rock having been shot in a gun battle with rebels. Should we believe him when he says this, especially as affluent Manhattan is his home and nowadays he is a habitué of the club-class lounge and the luxury hotel? Could he give this up to return to ruined Zimbabwe, one of the most forlorn nations on earth? Peter Godwin mentions often in this memoir that Africa is his home, that he is a white African, and that one day he will return to live in Zimbabwe, the country where he was born in the days when it was called Rhodesia and ruled by a repressive white minority. ![]()
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