Two African women are in the running for the 2020 Booker Prize, in a historic first for the UK’s most prestigious literary prize. One of contestants, Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, with her novel This Mournable Body.
Multiple award winning and Booker Prize nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga said she did not expect security forces’ politically motivated crackdown to extend to artistes and ordinary citizens that would result in her arrest.
