Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the most central African writers living today. In her trilogy about Tambu – Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable Body, she portrays not only Tambu’s life journey, but also that of her country, from colonial Rhodesia to an independent Zimbabwe, although neither state offer a real future for the majority of its people.
Dangarembga has also taken an active stance in the current political situation in Zimbabwe. While her activism has previously gotten her arrested, she has chosen to stay in the country, working to end corruption and patriarchal institutions, and to empower especially women and the arts.
Dangarembga is currently working on a new non-fiction book about indigenous African institutional knowledge. In this lecture, she will explore what African indigenous knowledge and practice of democratic institutions can teach contemporary African societies – and the rest of the world.
The lecture will be in English, followed by a Q&A led by Helge Jordheim, professor and director at Centre for Global Sustainability at the University of Oslo.
