Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Description:

Ms. Fuller reads from her book, Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, an autobiography portraying the life of a white African girl growing up in the midst of the Rhodesian civil war in the 1970s. She describes growing up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father enlisted in the war on the side of the white minority government and was often away fighting, leaving Alexandra, her mother, and her sisters to take on the rigorous daily farm work.

subjects: British Personal narratives,  Girls,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  History,  Zimbabwe, history,  Zimbabwe, biography,  British, africa,  Children and war,  English,  Biography & Autobiography,  Nonfiction,  Social conditions,  Zimbabwe Chimurenga War, 1966-1980,  Historia,  Personliga berättelser,  New York Times reviewed,  Large type books,  British

People: Alexandra Fuller (1969-)

Places: Zimbabwe

Times: Chimurenga War, 1966-1980,  20th century