Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Zimbabwe. Her novel Nervous Conditions won the African Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She has also studied filmmaking, graduating with honors from the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Her first feature, Kare Kare Zvako: Mother’s Day premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. Dangarembga lives in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she owns a film production company. She is also at work completing her second novel.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Articles by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tuesday November 20
Africa and the World: Writers at Home and Away
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA: When I think of myself, I don’t think of myself as an African writer. I think of myself as Tsitsi Dangarembga. The place I live that people call Africa is actually to me the place where children run in the garden, where the water starts ebbing away out of the taps at six