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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Southern AfricaContemporaryFiction
Nervous Conditions
1988Tsitsi Dangarembga
The coming-of-age story of Tambu, a young Shona girl in 1960s-70s Rhodesia, exploring themes of colonialism, gender, and education.
Southern AfricaFiction
This Mournable Body
2018Tsitsi Dangarembga
Third in Dangarembga's trilogy, following Tambudzai in her 40s, financially desperate and morally compromised in a Zimbabwe collapsing under Mugabe. Written in second person, implicating the reader.
Southern AfricaFiction