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Review by Hugh Macmillan (Historian and Research Associate, African Studies Centre, Oxford University)
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| Mark Huleatt-James's memoir of growing up on farms in Southern Rhodesia,
mainly in the area then known as Ayrshire, north of Salisbury, now Harare, is
pleasantly written and well produced, but lacks the immediacy and entertainment
value of Judy Rawlinson's book. His account of life on white farms, prep
school at Ruzawi, and senior secondary school at Peterhouse, reflects the
rather limited life of white settlers in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and
early 1960s by comparison with the more open life of the north. He fills in
some of the political background, but he did not have the personal
experience of African nationalism and political change that Rawlinson clearly
found stimulating. It is, perhaps, a pity that he did not extend his book to
cover the five years that his family spent in Zambia from 1966.
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| Author
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Mark Huleatt-James
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| Published
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2015
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| Pages
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256
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| Publisher
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Radcliffe Press
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| ISBN
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1784533122
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| Availability
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Abebooks
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