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Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Mutoko, Zimbabwe

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Spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare. She later studied medicine at Cambridge University, but became homesick and returned home as Zimbabwe's black-majority rule began in 1980.

She took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, of whose drama group she was a member. She also held down a two-year job as a copywriter at a marketing agency. This early writing experience gave her an avenue for expression: she wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and then joined the theatre group Zambuko, and participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa and Mavambo.

In 1985, Dangarembga published a short story in Sweden cal...more

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Books by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Average rating: 3.83 · 2413 ratings · 186 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, K. Anthony Appiah (Foreword) 384 avg rating — 2347 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Not: Stopping the Time 319 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nervous Conditions: And Related Readings 350 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	She No Longer Weeps 500 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Tambu by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Leila Ponkala (translator) 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1989	My rating:
	Cuatro Mujeres Que AME, Las 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga

tags: feminism , womanhood

9 people liked it

“...condemning Nyasha to whoredom, making her a victim of her femaleness, just as I had felt victimised at home in the days when Nhamo went to school and I grew my maize. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them. Even heroes like Babamukuru did it. And that was the problem. You had to admit Nyasha had no tact. You had to admit she was altogether too volatile and strong-willed. You couldn't ignore the fact that she had no respect for Babamukuru when she ought to have had lots of it. But what I didn't like was the way that all conflicts came back to the question of femaleness. Femaleness as opposed and inferior to maleness.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

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“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

tags: expectations , observation , observations , perception

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