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The publishing journey of Zimbabwean writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions wasn’t easy...

It reads powerfully in the Shona language, and is one of two of her books newly translated into it.

Who is this middle-aged woman who wakes up in the back of her room, in a girls' boarding house? From the outset, through the slowness of her movements and News

Literary terms or concepts like ‘mimicry’ cannot be understood without some knowledge about colonialism and its impacts on developing countries, especially those in the Global...

The Zimbabwean author and filmmaker receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She told DW about the issues affecting literature in her home country.

A portrait of Tsitsi Dangarembga at her home in Harare. (Cynthia R. Matonhodze) The last week of July 2020 was one of extreme paradoxes for Tsitsi Dangarembga. Three days after her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, the Zimbabwean writer, playwright and filmmaker found herself in prison after her arrest in Harare. Dangarembga, part of a two-women protest, was standing next to a highway, silently holding a placard protesting against st...

February 18, 2021 at 12:56 pm by Derek Mejia Courtesy of Pitchfork Black Country, New Road was born out of the ashes of predecessor band Nervous Condition, and with only a few singles under their belt, the London-based rock septet released their much anticipated debut album, “For the first time,” earlier this month .  Rising out of the famous Windmill Brixton music venue with other post-punk acts like Black Midi (both bands have even joined forces at one point under the m...