Tsitsi Dangarembga wrote her first novel, ‘Nervous Conditions’ at the age of twenty-five. It was immediately acknowledged as a seminal piece of literature and was hailed by Doris Lessing as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Dangarembga completed her education in her home country, where she worked as a copywriter before writing seriously as a poet and playwright.  She published her second novel ‘The Book of Not’ in 2006. She obtained her Masters in Filmmaking from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin.

Dangarembga lives in Harare where she founded the production house Nyerai Films and the ‘International Images Film Festival for Women’. She also founded the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa where she works as director, and her own publishing house, ICAPA Publishing in 2014 with a collection of short stories, ‘A Family Portrait’, that interrogate the many endemic forms of violence in Zimbabwe. Her contribution to the collection is a short story called ‘The Brick’. She is currently writing ‘Sai-Sai, Watermaker’, a dystopic speculative fiction for young adults.

DETAILS OF THE LECTURE ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Venue: University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, FADA Auditorium
Time: 18h30 for 19h00

If you are interested in attending or would like to arrange interviews with the guest lecturer, Ms Tsitsi Dangarembga, please contact:

Ms Siphokazi Sigenu
Tel: +27 11 518 0276
Cell: 072 233 1341
Email: siphokazis@mistra.org.za