Zimbabwe: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Writing About Pain and Loss in Zimbabwe

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Tsitsi Dangarembga has made a name for herself as a writer, filmmaker and activist in Zimbabwe. She gained international acclaim with her debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988), which became the first published English novel by a black woman from Zimbabwe. The BBC named it one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world.

Now, over three decades later, Dangarembga's latest novel - This Mournable Body, the third in a trilogy that began with Nervous Conditions and the subject of this review - has been placed on the longlist for the 2020 Booker Prize. The news broke a few days before Dangarembga's arrest for demonstrating against the government amidst a clampdown on critical voices in the country.

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