This event took place on the fifth floor of Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX between 1.30-2.30pm.
Geoff Hill has been commissioned to write a sequel to The Battle for Zimbabwe entitled What Happens After Mugabe. The Battle for Zimbabwe was released at the end of last year and 75 per cent of the 8000 print run sold out within the first 12 weeks.
Earlier this year he was invited to Washington DC to address the prestigious Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation and in February 2005 he will be guest speaker at the Commonwealth Press Union biennual meeting in Sydney.
In September 2000 he became the first non-American to receive a John Steinbeck Award for short-story writing and also won the 2000 Commonwealth Short Story Award for Africa.
Mr Hill has worked in Australia, the USA and UK and, in 1992 he co-founded the world's first international magazine on travel to Africa, African Safari.
Prior to founding this, he joined The Manica Post newspaper on the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and, after the nationalisation of the Press in 1982, he moved to Australia and spent eight years with Rupert Murdoch¹s News Corporation.
He is fluent in the Shona language.
