Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

By (author): "Andrew Meldrum"
Publish Date: 2004
Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
ISBN0802142516
ISBN139780802142511
AsinWhere We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Original titleWhere We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe consolidated power and the government evolved into despotism. In May 2003, Meldrum, the last foreign journalist still working in the dangerous and chaotic nation, was illegally forced to leave his adopted home. His unflinching work describes the terror and intimidation Mugabe’s government exercised on both the press and citizens, and the resiliency of Zimbabweans determined to overturn Mugabe and demand the free society they were promised.