Cover of Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Fiction · First published 1988

Nervous Conditions

by Tsitsi DangarembgaZimbabwe

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In 1960s Rhodesia, Tambu fights for an education — a chance that comes only when her brother's death opens a place at her uncle's mission school.

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