Tsitsi Dangarembga
Novelist
Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker whose 1988 debut novel Nervous Conditions was the first novel by a Black Zimbabwean woman to be published in English. The novel's title is drawn from a line in Fanon's preface to The Wretched of the Earth. She received the PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression in 2021 after being arrested at a protest in Harare.