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Graham Atkins


Born
in Salisbury, Zimbabwe
December 06, 1956

Genre
Biography, Nonfiction


Graham Atkins was born in Rhodesia in 1956, growing up in Salisbury (now Harare) and attending Churchill High School. Nine years old when Southern Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965, he came of age during a period of deepening political crisis. In 1979, at the height of the civil war, he was conscripted into the Rhodesian Army as a Second Lieutenant in 1RR Battalion, witnessing first-hand the tragedy of a nation at war with itself.

Following independence, Atkins remained in Zimbabwe, working as a government town planner, a safari camp manager, and later as a senior business manager. When Zimbabwe's economy collapsed and law and order broke down, he and his family were among the millions who eventually left the c ...more

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