A biography for Tsitsi Dangarembgahasn’t been written yet.
“It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”
“She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.”
“We co-existed in peaceful detachment”
“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”
“What it is,” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.”