The author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia) in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political beliefs and opposition to the minority White Governement. This book interlaces memory and everyday life in Zimbabwe from the disappearing wildlife of the bush to political corruption, from the menace of AIDS to the many successful communal enterprises created by local black rural communities.