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Michael Holman
Michael Holman was brought up in small-town white Rhodesia, establishing his political credentials in Salisbury (now Harare) as a University of Rhodesia student leader opposing UDI in 1965. In August 1967 he was served with a government order confining him to his hometown (Gwelo, now Gweru). Allowed to leave after a year, he completed an MSc at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to Zimbabwe to work as a journalist. He narrowly escaped arrest after refusing to accept a military call-up and after three weeks in hiding, left the country illegally. He soon returned to Africa, basing himself in Lusaka, Zambia, and writing as the Financial Times‘s Africa correspondent. After moving to London he became the paper’s Africa Editor, taking early retirement in 2002 following surgery for Parkinson’s disease, but continues to visit his old beat regularly. In addition to collections of his reports, he has written three satirical novels set in the imaginary East African nation of Kuwisha.
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Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
£12.99FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Michael Holman’s eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region’s post independence successes and setbacks. From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments […]
