Tsitsi Dangarembga

Angela Smith (University of Stirling)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.2.3.03: South Africa and other Southern Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 1959
Activity 1985-ongoing

Places

Born in Zimbabwe
Active in Zimbabwe

Activities

Primary

Film Director
Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Dangarembga's Works

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Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Mutoko in colonial Rhodesia, which became the independent state of Zimbabwe in 1980. She moved to Britain when she was two, and started school there, returning to Rhodesia when she was six. She completed her school education at a missionary school in Mutare and began a degree in medicine at Cambridge, but returned home in 1980 without completing the degree. Instead she completed a degree in psychology at the University of Harare, where she wrote plays for a drama group, including one which she also directed called

The Lost of the Soil

. In 1985 she published a story called “The Letter” in Sweden, and in 1987 her play

She No Longer Weeps

was published in Harare.

Dangarembga studied film direction at the Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie in Berlin, and was

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Citation: Smith, Angela. "Tsitsi Dangarembga". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 June 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5003, accessed 24 November 2024.]