Tsitsi Dangarembga: “We are never completely free; we have moments of freedom”

The nervous conditions, referred to in the title of the first novel by -Tsitsi Dangarembga (Mutoko, Zimbabwe, 66), were described by Jean-Paul Sartre in the prologue to The Convicted of the Land, by psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. Those nerves stem from losing all reference and not understanding your place in the world. It happened to Dangarembga herself when, after living in a British host family, she returned to Zimbabwe. Her life seems like a care…