Spread This NewsBy theguardian.comZimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga is the much-heralded author of numerous novels, including the Booker-shortlisted This Mournable Body and Nervous Conditions, winner of the Commonwealth writers’ prize. This is a truth many of us – whether we are included in that category or not – prefer to avoid. Today, the wounding empire is that of the western nations: the empire that covered more than 80% of the globe at its zenith in the 19th century. “It includes the British empire that colonised my country Zimbabwe in the 1890s. It is the result of an unrelenting fight for survival and dignity.”

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2022 01:45 UTC