The Angels of Zimbabwe
What was it like in white supremacist Rhodesia before it became troubled Zimbabwe? “Iron Man” Ian Smith had declared Independence from Britain in 1965 determined to keep Rhodesia “white man’s country.” By the early 70s the Matabele and Mashona freedom fighters were over the borders in Zambia and Mozambique. . . . A young American hitch-hikes down the Great North Road from Kenya to see Rhodesia for himself, gets a job on a white newspaper in Salisbury (Harare), joins the ZANU youth wing underground, and with his best friend an African writer embarks on an adventure to enlighten the European settlers before it is too late to stop the devastating race war out of which modern day Zimbabwe with all its bitterness was born.