Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Zimbabwean author wins appeal against her protest conviction
Tsitsi Dangarembga was given a $200 fine and a six-month suspended sentence in September after she held up a placard calling for reform
The black feminist’s survival guide
Critically-acclaimed Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga’s new book Black and Female describes the lived experience of the African feminist
The Continent: Africa A-Z of 2021
The highlights of 2021 in Africa
Review: Koleka Putuma brings black women history back into the fold
The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry
Tsitsi Dangarembga: Are we mourning ourselves, each other and this state we are in?
The author discusses the trilogy of novels that propelled her onto the Booker shortlist, and their relevance to present-day Zimbabwe
As opposition mounts, Zimbabwe’s president lashes out
Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused ‘dark forces’ of destabilising the country
Oh, to be ‘free’ in Zimbabwe
Revisiting a book written in 1989 is an opportunity to review the country’s history
Border delays because officials can
Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles
Dangarembga builds on her two earlier books
Here the protagonist is in her 30s, and she again narrates her story herself with an interesting distancing to reflect the divisions in her being.
My journey of reading women, writing as a woman and growing a wide heart
Growing up, I was taught that reading was the key to life. Now I read to write.
Meeting, sharing and deconstructing with Tsitsi Dangarembga
After a meeting with Dangarembga and inspired by Mariama Bâ’s novel ‘So Long a Letter’, Milisuthando Bongela writes a letter to a friend in the US.