For more than three decades, Judith Todd has been at loggerheads with successive governments of Zimbabwe. After being jailed and then exiled by Ian Smith's regime, she returned to her country in 1980 and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe's ills, Robert Mugabe and ZANU (PF) were increasingly becoming the problem.

As the country slid into social and economic decline, Todd's position as director of a local development agency gave her a unique vantage point from which to observe the increasing arrogance and cruelty of Zimbabwe's leaders and the suffering and struggles of ordinary citizens. Peopled with household names from diplomats and politicians to international correspondents and liberation leaders, Through the Darkness takes readers from the family ranch outside Bulawayo to Buckingham Palace, from the bowels of Zimbabwe's prisons to the inner sanctums of Mugabe's cabinet. It is also the story of the country's silenced people - their courage, their irrepressible humor, their hopes and their feelings of betrayal.

Drawing from journals, letters and documents, this is a fascinating personal account of life in Zimbabwe

About The Author:

Judith Todd was born and raised in the former Rhodesia and became a prominent citizen of the new state of Zimbabwe. She is a daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, erstwhile prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia and later appointed as a senator by Mugabe. As director of the Zimbabwe Project Trust, she worked for many years with members of the former liberation armies, the so-called war veterans. In 2003 she became one of the hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans stripped of their citizenship by the Mugabe regime. She now lives in Cape Town, South Africa.