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The White Shadow by Andrea Eames (view source)
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|publisher=Vintage
|date=February 2013
|summary=Growing up in the clash of old world superstion and modern day politics isn't easy, when you've a strange sister and a divided family. This story from the death throes of Rhodesia is both beautiful and softly powerful.
|cover=0099565420
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We also have a review of Eames' [[The Cry of the Go-Away Bird by Andrea Eames|The Cry of the Go-Away Bird]].
For an entirely different more light-hearted African childhood, you might enjoy [[Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott]] - or for the powerful and emotional take on the continent's troubled history there's [[Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]]