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|title=The White Shadow

|sort=White Shadow, The

|publisher=Vintage

|date=February 2013

|summary=Growing up in the clash of old world superstion and modern day politics isn't easy, when you've a strange sister and a divided family. This story from the death throes of Rhodesia is both beautiful and softly powerful.

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As a general principle I am a little tired of books that start at the end. I want to argue for a return to good old fashioned narrative where stories start at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stop.

Read it!

For an entirely different more light-hearted African childhood, you might enjoy [[Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott]] - or for the powerful and emotional take on the continent's troubled history there's [[Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]]