insert_link Africa Nervous Conditions: on translating one of Zimbabwe’s most famous novels into Shona By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford The publishing journey of Zimbabwean writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions wasn’t easy. Yet the novel is today considered by many as one of Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th century and is studied at universities around the world. When she submitted the manuscript to publishing houses in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s, they all turned it down. Dangarembga […] todayFebruary 20, 2024 28