This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – life on the precipice

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A powerful tale of a woman’s descent into poverty in modern Harare

ou want nothing more than to break away from the implacable terror of every day you spend in your country – where you can no longer afford the odd dab of peanut butter to liven up the vegetables from Mai Manyanga’s garden.” This is the voice of Tambu, first encountered in the Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga’s much-praised 1988 book, a passionate, first-person account of a 1960s Rhodesian childhood scarred by the war of independence.

 

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