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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in February 1959 in Mutoko, to parents who were teachers, and spent part of her childhood in England. She began studying medicine at Cambridge in 1977, returned to Zimbabwe in 1980, studied psychology in Harare and then directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, and made films for German television before her first feature film, in 1996. Winner in 2021 of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, she was arrested in 2020 for a call to demonstrate against corruption, then given a suspended sentence in 2022.

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