• A COLONIAL BOY, the soundtrack of an African childhood

A COLONIAL BOY, the soundtrack of an African childhood

: Cocks (C.)

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 212pp., illus., maps, paperback, Thirty Degrees South Publishers, Durban, 2025

ISBN: 9798872551850

 

Chris Cocks' account of his boyhood, living in the suburb of Highlands outside Salisbury, Rhodesia, in the late 1950s and the 1960s, against the backdrop of Ian Smith's UDI, sanctions, and the beginnings of the bush war.

Writer and freelance editor Chris Cocks (b. 1957) is the author of Fireforce, one man's war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry and Survival Course, Rhodesian denouement and the war of self as well as the novel Deslocado Redemption: A story of Africa. He lives in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.