Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

  Copyright © 2001 by Alexandra Fuller

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  The author would like to thank Ian Murphy for permission to reproduce

  the photographs “Dad and Bo” and “Charlie and Mum” in the “Charlie”

  chapter, and would like to thank Ross Hilderbrand for permission to reproduce the photographs of the author’s father at the beginnings of the

  “Chimurenga, 1974,” “War, 1976,” and “Richard” chapters.

  All other photos are from the Fuller family collection.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Fuller, Alexandra.

  Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood / Alexandra Fuller.

  p. cm.

  1. Zimbabwe—History—Chimurenga War, 1966–1980—Personal narratives, British. 2. Fuller, Alexandra, 1969—Childhood and youth. 2. Girls—Zimbabwe—Biography. I. Title.

  DT2990 .F85 2002

  968.91´04´092—dc21

  [B] 2001041752

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  eISBN: 978-1-58836-049-6

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