Quote by Tsitsi Dangarembga: “Education is not a matter of simply knowing facts.”

Dangarembga suggests that true learning goes beyond memorizing information. It implies that real education involves critical thinking, understanding, and perhaps even challenging existing knowledge, rather than just accumulation.

This reflection on education appears in her novel *This Mournable Body* (2018), published during a time of widespread debate about educational systems globally. Dangarembga emphasizes the need for critical engagement with knowledge, particularly in contexts where education can be used to perpetuate societal inequalities.

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.