Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel, “Nervous Conditions,” made her part of the African literary canon. Decades later, “This Mournable Body” has made her a contender for one of the world’s top book ...

Nervous Conditions is a book that covers imperialism, colonisation, women's rights, and race. The story exposes us to these experiences through the lens of a young black woman from a colonised country ...