Browsing: Tsitsi Dangarembga

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.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration deployed hundreds of security forces across the country to clampdown on July 31 political activists and human rights defenders protesting against gross corruption and mismanagement of the economy.