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Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga is one super talented and extraordinary individual, who has made a name for herself in the arts and entertainment. The renowned author, director and playwright has regularly examined her path escalating to bewildering prominence as one of Zimbabwe’s greatest crowned Author.

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Here are a ten facts you may not know about the author:

1. Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in 1959 in the town of Mutoko, Zimbabwe

2. She moved to England as a young girl and received her elementary education there

3.  She returned to Zimbabwe at the age of six and finished her education in a missionary school in Mutare, where she also re-learned her native language, Shona.

4.Tsitsi was once a student of medicine at the University of Cambridge however she later opted to study psychology at the University of Zimbabwe.

5.Her 1996 film ‘Everyone’s Child’ was the first feature film directed by a black Zimbabwean woman.

6. While Dangarembga was a student, she worked as a copywriter for a marketing agency and also discovered her love of theater.

7. She wrote several plays that were put into production at the university

8. Her first short story ‘The Letter’ was published in Sweden in 1985.

9. Tsitsi was the pen behind Neria. She wrote the short story for the iconic Zimbabwean film in 1993 and it went on to be so successful on the big screen that it became the highest grossing film in the country’s history!

10. Her first novel, ‘Nervous Condition’, was published in 1988 when Tsitsi was just 28 years of age

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