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9 Favourite First Lines from Doubleday authors - Women's Prize

Sep 25, 2024 | womensprize.com | Tsitsi Dangarembga |Jane Austen |Michelle Zauner |Muriel Spark

Nervous Conditionsby Tsitsi Dangarembga Find out more I was not sorry when my brother died. Chosen by Paula Hawkins, author of The Blue HourShort, not sweet. The first line of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s groundbreaking debut novel, Nervous Conditions, introduces us in disquieting and memorable fashion to her singular young narrator, Tambudzai Sigauke.
Tsitsi Dangarembga's speech

Oct 8, 2023 | dailymaverick.co.za | Tsitsi Dangarembga

AFRICA FREEDOM PRIZE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH On 5 October award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the Africa Freedom Prize at a ceremony at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In 2020, here novel ‘This Mournable Body’ was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Below we publish Dangarembga’s acceptance speech. Good evening honoured guests, friends and colleagues. I am astonished at the honour of being awarded the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Africa Freedom Prize this evening.
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Aug 2, 2023 | opencountrymag.com | Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu |Leila Aboulela |Tsitsi Dangarembga |Chibundu Onuzo

Even though he did not partake in it, Spokes understood his fellow officers’ need for celebration. A ceasefire meant that there would no longer be any stints with the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit. ... He ran his hands over the contents of the folder in a gesture made more tender because his hands were trembling. Daisy: her unsolved murder made what he needed to do now very difficult—near impossible—but still he managed to close the folder carefully. ...
Thirty Things I Love About Myself

Jul 9, 2023 | listening-books.org.uk | Celeste Ng |Dawn O'Porter |Tsitsi Dangarembga |Curtis Sittenfield

Author Douglas Stuart Narrator Angus King Duration 17h 41m This is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie'...
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela: Excerpt

Mar 9, 2023 | opencountrymag.com | Leila Aboulela |Tsitsi Dangarembga |Chibundu Onuzo |Diriye Osman

The vegetation thickens and rising out of the shadows is a Shilluk warrior. Spear in hand, muscular torso above his loincloth, the physique of a wrestler. She stiffens, drops the bit of sugarcane. Fight or run, fight or run? ... When she runs, she feels the amulets she is wearing bounce against her chest and biceps, sacred words in tiny leather pouches, the red tassels that tie them fluttering against her skin. The newest amulet was given to her by the Mahdi himself. ...
Sillerman Prize Winner Tares Oburumu on Surviving Life and Writing Poetry

Feb 5, 2023 | opencountrymag.com | Emmanuel Esomnofu |Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tares Oburumu was paddling a canoe when he came upon a signboard that said: Syma. He was in the Niger Delta, where he grew up and has lived most of his life, a region full of government-owned spots and unresolved history. The spelling isn’t the sole title ascribed to his community, but Oburumu, a poet who believes in chance, was compelled to pull close. “I started asking questions and I was getting answers,” he told me.
Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic

Jan 22, 2023 | newspub.live | Tsitsi Dangarembga

THE AFTERMATH: The Final Days of the Child Increase and the Way forward for Energy in America, by Philip BumpChild boomers, a seemingly upbeat lot, are in all probability not contemplating whether or not there will probably be sufficient house to inter them after they’ve all died. Philip Bump, cynical Gen Xer, goes proper there after which some.
Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic

Jan 22, 2023 | musalmantimes.com | Tsitsi Dangarembga

BLACK AND FEMALE: Essays, by Tsitsi DangarembgaThe Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre has been defined by her unwillingness to render her characters — citizens of newly independent nations, wandering through the unmapped expanse of the post-colonial moment — as unknowing innocents or foundering victims.
Review: 'Black and Female,' by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Jan 20, 2023 | startribune.com | Tsitsi Dangarembga

"The first wound for all of us who are classified as 'black' is empire." So begins the first essay in Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga's trenchant new collection, "Black and Female," firmly establishing the terrain and approach of the slim but incisive volume. "I had no inkling that I was just a black body brought into the world only to be, in the avaricious eyes of empire, useful to it," she continues.
How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

Jan 18, 2023 | lithub.com | Tsitsi Dangarembga

The first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire. This is a truth many of us—whether we are included in that category or not—prefer to avoid. Today, the wounding empire is that of the Western nations: the empire that covered more than 80 per cent of the globe at its zenith in the nineteenth century. It includes the British empire that colonized my country Zimbabwe in the 1890s.