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World Book Club: Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

07/03/2021 GMT

Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions

A coming-of-age story of two Shona girls trying to find their place in contemporary Zimbabwe.

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, Nervous Conditions is the coming-of-age story of two Shona girls, Tambudzai and Nyasha, both trying to find their place in contemporary Zimbabwe. 

Whilst Nyasha has been to England and questions the effect of that Westernisation on her family, Tambudzai is from a more traditional branch of the family and is awed by her cousin’s seeming sophistication. 

Through its exploration of race, class, gender and the nature of friendship, the novel dramatizes the 'nervousness' of the 'postcolonial' condition that vexes us still.

(Picture:Tsitsi Dangarembga. Photo credit: Hannah Mentz.)

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