Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of Africa’s key literary voices. The prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and cultural activist has been writing for four decades. She is best known for her trilogy of novels set in Zimbabwe, beginning with Nervous Conditions, the first novel by a Black Zimbabwean woman to be published in English. In 2020, This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has been awarded the English PEN Pinter Prize, the German Peace Prize and Yale’s Windham Campbell Prize. In 2022, The Financial Times named her one of the 25 most influential women in the world. She lives between Zimbabwe and Germany.
Tsitsi Dangarembga takes her rightful place as our first guest in the African imaginary, whose name she inspired. In deep conversation with host Khangi Khoza, she explores African cosmology, the craft of storytelling, her icons, AI and authorship, and what it means to tell stories that hold up a mirror to us.