 |  | | | Alexandra Fuller | Wednesday 6 March 2002 | | |
Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1970s Alexandra Fuller faced more than the usual mix of childhood perils. There were the scorpions, snakes, worms and malaria, not to mention the threat of land mines and guerrilla ambush. And then there was the civil war.
Like most white children over 5, she learnt how to load an FN rifle magazine, strip and clean a gun, and to shoot-to-kill.
In her highly acclaimed memoir of this time, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, she recalls the danger, racism, anarchy and sheer absurdity of growing up in Rhodesia.
She joins Jenni to talk about her life.
Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight - An African Childhood", pub. Picador, ISBN 0-330-49023-0
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week from 11th-15th March
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