Tsitsi Dangaremgba

Tsitsi Dangarembga (b. 1959, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. In 2018 the BBC named her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world.

It was the first novel published by a black woman in Zimbabwe. This became a trilogy and included the sequels The Book of Not and This Mournable Body.
Dangarembga studied medicine at the University of Cambridge before returning to Zimbabwe to study psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, and later pursued filmmaking at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.
Dangarembga is also an activist and founder of several organizations, including the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA).