![]() ![]() ![]() Tambu’s uncle, Babamukuru, and his family came to visit the homestead. The only thing Tambu desires is to attend school, but her family is very poor and does not have enough money to pay her school fees. Tambu is not upset about this because Nhamo studied at a missionary school away from home with his uncle Babamukuru and his family. ![]() The novel opens with the news that Tambu’s older brother, Nhamo, had just died. Tambu is the main character of the novel. The title is taken from the introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Nervous Conditions illustrates the dynamic themes of race, colonialism, and gender during the colonial period of present-day Zimbabwe. Nervous Conditions is the first book of a trilogy, with The Book of Not (2006) as the second novel in the series, and This Mournable Body (2020) as the third. The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Shona family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s. Nervous Conditions won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989, and in 2018 was listed as one of the BBC's top 100 books that changed the world. It was the first book published by a black woman from Zimbabwe in English. Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988. ![]()
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