The Mugabe stuff reminds me, one of my childhood friends’ moms had grown up white Rhodesian, I think. Def. British colonial in Africa and not South Africa, the timeline from the one time she mentioned escaping by plane while farms burned out the window lines up

Didn’t explicitly come up other than that time, the main effects I got were

- she had that singsong lilting African English accent that maybe came from Raj colonials?

- she made a mean curry and tikka masala as everyday meals

- she had this frankly weird sense of Australia as an exotic paradise-on-earth