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Early Life
Tsitsi Dangarembga was in Mutoko, Zimbabwe on February 4 1959. At the time, this part of Zimbabwe was called Southern Rhodesia and was the territory of the self-governing British Crown colony. Her parents, Susan and Amon Dangarembga set the precedent for Tsitsi to become an educated and successful individual. Tsitsi’s mother, Susan happened to become the first black woman in their colony to earn a bachelor’s degree while her father was a principal. From ages two to six Tsitsi lived in England before moving back to Rhodesia during it’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 (Pindula, Admin).
Education
Tsitsi attended Hartzell primary school as her parents worked at the Hartzell high school in her hometown of Mutare. She went on to attend Marymount Mission convent boarding school, before going to Arundel School in Harare where she finished up her A levels. In 1977 she studied medicine at the University of Cambridge but returned home three years later due to the intense racism she faced while attending the school. She finished her schooling at the University of Zimbabwe, studying psychology (Brick, Madeleine Thien). There she was introduced to the world of the theater after joining the drama club. It was at this time that she wrote and direct
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TSITSI DANGAREMBGA
(b. 1959, Zimbabwe, Southeast Africa; Heathenish group: Shona)
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of information . . . . While rendering critical reaction of that novel has focused on the whole on
the author's feminist agendum, in [this] interview . . . Dangarembga stresses that she has moved
from . . . gender government to proposal appreciation commentary the complexities of rendering politics
of postcolonial subjecthood" (George folk tale Scott 309).
Tsitsi Dangarembga was interviewed 4 Sept. 1989 in Writer by Jane Wilkinson: quotations below equalize from Wilkinson's interview information flow Dangarembga. Extra commentary decline Cora Agatucci's.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in 1959 in the town of Mutoko, Zimbabwe (which was Rhodesia at the time). She moved to England as a young girl and received her elementary education there. She returned to Zimbabwe at the age of six and finished her education in a missionary school in Mutare, where she also re-learned her native language, Shona. In 1977, she returned to England to study medicine at Cambridge University.
In 1980, Dangarembga returned to Rhodesia to study psychology at the University of Harare. Shortly thereafter, the country gained independence from the United Kingdom and became "Zimbabwe" under black-majority rule. While Dangarembga was a student, she worked as a copywriter for a marketing agency and also discovered her love of theater. She wrote several plays that were put into production at the university. In 1983, her play The Lost of the Soil got the attention of Robert McLaren, and Dangarembga joined his theater group, Zambuko. She also wrote the 1987 play She Does Not Weep. Her first short story, The Letter, was published in Sweden in 1985.
Nervous Conditions her first novel, was published in England in 1988, when Dangarembga was only twenty-five years old. It was the f