Biography of tsitsi dangarembga

Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

INTRODUCTION

Dangarembga is the first black woman from Zimbabwe to publish a novel in English.

Her Nervous Conditions (1988), winner of the African segment of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, is a feminist novel that was initially rejected for publication in newly independent Zimbabwe, a region dominated by patriarchal attitudes.

It was eventually accepted by an international publisher.

Biography of tsitsi dangarembga

Dangarembga is also recognized as the first Zimbabwean black woman to direct a feature film, Everyone's Child (1996), which she also co-wrote, calling attention to the AIDS crisis in Africa.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Dangarembga was born in 1959 in Mutoko, in the British colony of Rhodesia, a region in central South Africa that now comprises the country of Zimbabwe.

From age two until the age of six she lived in England, where she attended school before returning to Rhodesia in 1965. There she was educated at