Tsitsi Dangarembga was given a $200 fine and a six-month suspended sentence in September after she held up a placard calling for reform

Critically-acclaimed Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga’s new book Black and Female describes the lived experience of the African feminist

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The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry

The author discusses the trilogy of novels that propelled her onto the Booker shortlist, and their relevance to present-day Zimbabwe

Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused ‘dark forces’ of destabilising the country

Revisiting a book written in 1989 is an opportunity to review the country’s history

Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles

Here the protagonist is in her 30s, and she again narrates her story herself with an interesting distancing to reflect the divisions in her being.

Growing up, I was taught that reading was the key to life. Now I read to write.