International Book Club "Z" for Zimbabwe Meeting

Let's read Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga for Zimbabwe!

Nervous Conditions is the Protected content novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga. The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Shona family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the Protected content , and centers on the themes of race, colonialism, and gender.

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's Protected content Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women's rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the 'nervousness' of the 'postcolonial' conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.