A few weeks before the Zimbabwean parliamentary elections of June 2000, I went to visit a white couple, Graham and Glenda Douse, at their farm near Harare. Nyagambe Farm is about an hour’s drive south-east of the capital, beyond the small, neat country town of Marondera. Turning down the murram ro…
Two Farms: One Black, One White
Lindsey Hilsum
‘They were both in their early forties. We drank tea on the veranda, watching the dogs play as the water sprinkler greened the lawn. This was the Africa of the white man's dream, where nature can be subdued inside the compound, but where the bush extends in its thrilling wildness just beyond the fence.’
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Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum is the Channel 4 News International Editor and a columnist for the New Statesman. She is the author of Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide began.
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