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title: "The Fear"
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# The Fear

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    A very hard set of anecdotes to was through
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2023*

I've read a few memoirs by Godwin, each with their own pacing and tone. This one was the hardest, possibly too much raw emotion you the point where it was hard for me to follow.Regardless, is recommend to read this, albeit in small chunks and over a prolonged period, to understand the debauchery of this era of Zimbabwean history.

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    Lost for Words
  

*by L***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2011*

As a fellow Zimbabwean living on foreign shores, having read Peter Godwin's The Fear I am at a loss for words. Partly because the subject matter is so bitterly painful, there is no coherent way to respond to the way the grip of power has squeezed out such a horrendous toll of human suffering, but also, no doubt, by the manner in which, despite harrowing detail, all of which he chronicles with a poignant deftness, the author still manages to transport me, with yearning, to this beautiful land. Despite the political savagery that has taken a similar toll on the wildlife, trees, rivers and mountains, Zimbabwe's haggard remnants are still proudly bursting forth. So much so that my childhood memories are keenly awakened and I feel a solid lump of sorrow for Zim's fateful journey. And I, who live in relative luxury many miles away, aware of the hard times being faced by family and friends, have imagined a subtler version of Godwin's account, probably to quieten my own fear of what has become of my home.They call people like me, one of multitudes of Zimbabweans who live abroad, the diaspora. I knew we were of some assistance to those at home in a way by sending foreign currency and goods from time to time, but reading this book, I fear we have grossly underestimated the conditions faced by our compatriots and our absence and failure to participate is perhaps an indictment against us? I ask myself why haven't we, as a people, well educated, talented, inherently dignified, though of humble bearing, and here I speak not for myself, but the many Zimbabweans I have encountered in my life, why have we not prevented the outrage that is modern day Zim? This has troubled me over the years as  I have gone about raising my children and the daily grind of my comfortable western life. But the answer is really not that complicated, it is black and white as documented in this book. The insane trajectory that took my home from it's sunny post- independence to these dark and treacherous days, is one founded on a bedrockof fear. A groove as deep and ugly as those left by the marauding clear cutters and miners who rob Zimbabwe of its abundant fauna and tear the pristine countryside apart at its seams. I don't despair for Zimbabwe yet. I still have hope. But The Fear hasreminded me to re-examine my good fortune and consider what it is I can do to make this world a better place. This is, I think,what any good book should do.  For some lighter reading on Zimbabwe, go to: 
  
The Summoner: (The Dominic Grey Novels) (Volume 1)

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    A Truthful Chronicle of the Facts
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2013*

Peter Godwin is not just a writer who got his facts from visiting or touring as a journalist. He was born and grew up in Zimbabwe and since leaving the country to attend university in England after serving his mandatory service in the BSA Police in a remote rural area, he has returned time and time again, first to care for his aging parents in Harare and to write about what he has seen and experienced personally, and also for the news media who employed him as a journalist.The Fear gives truthful and graphic personal recountings of what it is like to survive (if you're lucky) in the Zimbabwe of today, if you oppose the Mugabe government.The horrific 33-year nightmare rule of Robert Mugabe has plundered the assets and ruined the vibrant economy inherited from the White government of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Mugabe has overseen the systematic slaughter of over 20 thousand plus of the Ndebele people in the south of the country, and caused the starvation of thousands more of the entire population by removing the farms of the very people who grew the food, the white farming community. White farmers who had developed thriving farms over decades, were robbed of them literally overnight and many of them brutally beaten or murdered in the takeover. The farms were divided up and redistributed in plots to blacks who claimed to be "war vets" (many of them who weren't even born during the conflict of the 70's) and today the majority of that land stands fallow and unproductive with subsistent farming, the buildings burnt out or destroyed. Still many more thousands of Zimbabweans have fled the country for jobs in South Africa, and those who remain have been subject to unbelievably cruel tortures, vicious beatings, and murder in Mugabe's dictatorial determination to retain his maniacal rule.

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