The writer Alexandra Fuller is best known in southern Africa for two books which portray with vivid accuracy the sad, often sordid world of white Rhodesia.
Fuller, who now lives in the United States, recently published another book, in which she turns her focus on her new home. In an interview with AllAfrica, she explained why.
(left) Writer Alexandra Fuller draws parallels between oil workers in the American west and young men used by Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith as "instruments of violence against 11 million people."
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