Zimbabwe's slow suicide

There is a good article by Susie Linfield in Dissent. She traces the collapse of Mugabe's Zimbabwe through a study of five widely available books:

• When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
• African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing
• The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera

See the This is Zimbabwe blog too.