Book launch - ZIMBABWE: Years of Hope and Despair
Organiser:The Commonwealth Journalists Association (UK)
Location:London
Date:9 Jun 2010 -
9 Jun 2010
The Commonwealth Journalists Association (UK) invites you to a BOOK LAUNCH
9 JUNE, 3-5 PM
VENUE: Pitcher and Piano, 42 Kingsway, Holborn, London WC2B 6EX
ZIMBABWE: Years of Hope and Despair
Author: Philip Barclay
Philip Barclay was a British Diplomat in Harare 2006-2009. Prior to that he worked at the Foreign Office in London and was stationed in Poland and Estonia. He is now a full time writer living in Ankara.
ZIMBABWE: Years of Hope and Despair is Philip's personal and political account of those years. Philip was at the centre of the tumultuous events of 2008. Zimbabwe's people voted against Robert Mugabe, but their desire for change was denied as vicious squads of indoctrinated youths loyal to the ageing dictator launched a campaign of murder, rape, and destruction. In the wake of such terror, the country's economy and public services collapsed, leading to widespread poverty and epidemics of diseases that Zimbabwe had not seen in living memory. Philip asks why the world stood by and watched as Zimbabwe burned and questions whether power-sharing between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai offers the way forward which the country needs.
An honest account of a diplomat's confrontation with a brutal dictatorship, "Zimbabwe" is also a personal story of the resilience - despite their daily experience of despair and death - of Zimbabwe's people.
'Very, very good. Barclay's book is chilling and heartbreaking. He is as far from the diplomat of the 'old school' as can be imagined. As a man, and a writer, he is engaged and brave'
Fergal Keane
RSVP: ritapayne@hotmail.com
M: 08834-845240
Signed copies of Zimbabwe: Years of Hope and Despair will be on offer at the event.
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