Tsitsi Dangarembga
b. 1959 · Zimbabwe · Literature
Nervous Conditions opened African women's fiction to a global readership.
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- Bessie Head
1937 – 1986 · Literature
Head's account of exile and mental strain is a direct precedent.
- Chinua Achebe
1930 – 2013 · Literature
Nervous Conditions writes the colonial-education plot Achebe opened, from a woman's side.
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