The Jesuit-educated Zimbabwean writer says the losses of his parents, his marriage and his homeland have led him to reflect on the formative influences of his childhood

There are plenty of variations for the often-used quote sometimes attributed to St Ignatius Loyola that broadly runs along the lines of, “Give me a child till he is seven and I will show you the man.” This maxim is running through my mind as Peter Godwin tells me about the impact going to a Jesuit school in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, has made on his life – despite the fact that he wasn’t even a Catholic when he started there.

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