Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: An African Childhood

I can't believe some of the criticisms of this wonderful book. As a white woman who grew up in Zim - even though I was a few years older and lived in town - it captured exactly what it was (is) like. The matter of fact descriptions are powerful on their own - would you expect a 13 year old girl to be making a studied analysis of the political forces at work? The point is that Fuller manages to describe vividly events which fit into that world and give you a richer understanding of it. There are good novels and historic/political books from other perspectives, but that does not mean that her perspective is invalid. Try reading some of the dry as dust ones like Cathy Buckle's account of the current experiences of white farmers (written from a very liberal, politically correct standpoint) and see which gives you a better insight.By the way, for the reviewer her questioned her teapot metaphor - has he/she ever looked at a map of Zimbabwe?