April 15: Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga

April 15, Saturday (online)12pm New York  |  5pm London | 6pm Harare We will read Black and Female, a set of anti-colonial and feminist essays by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga. This selection is part of our Transformative Futures series where we learn together and tackle new, important ideas.  You can buy the book on the Graywolf Press website here or on Faber here.  About the bookIn Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from her parents as a toddler, connecting this experience to the ruptures caused in Africa by human trafficking and enslavement. She argues that, after independence, the ruling party in Zimbabwe only performed inclusion for women while silencing the work of self-actualized feminists. Sh