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...Peter's uncle, Godwin Akpan Johnson, had reservations about his nephew's career choice. "As a family member when you saw him boxing you got disturbed," he says. "We wanted him to finish school, but God wanted him to be a boxer...
...Internet has opened the floodgates of unverified assertion. The top news source is Wikipedia, whose compilers are free to create or distort any fact. Corrections are made only if someone more responsible weighs in. Mike Godwin, the new chief counsel for Wikipedia, shrugs off the inaccuracies, some of them defamatory, on his website. "In another 25 years," he told The New York Times last week, "all of our children will have grown up in a world in which media like these are mutable and changeable and people prank each other, and it will seem less important." By "it" Godwin means...
WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN By Peter Godwin 344 pages...
Jambanja is a word the Shona people of Zimbabwe use to mean "to turn everything upside down, to cause violent confusion." Of late it has come to refer to the practice of running white Zimbabwean farmers, many of whom have been there for generations, off their land. Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful...
...African story is simple, and the current violence has its roots in older injustices. "Colonialism lasted just long enough to destroy much of Africa's indigenous cultures and traditions," Godwin observes, "but not long enough to leave behind a durable replacement." Godwin's own story lends another layer of historical irony. In 2001 he learned that his father was not, as he had always believed, an English immigrant. He was a Polish Jew who had fled the Holocaust. "Being a white here," Godwin's father observes, dismayed at the rising chaos, "is starting to feel a bit like being...