Quote by Tsitsi Dangarembga: “The past cannot be changed, but the future is still in your power.”

This quote offers a hopeful perspective, acknowledging that we can't alter history. However, it empowers individuals by stating that they retain control over shaping their own destinies and influencing what is yet to come.

From her acclaimed novel *Nervous Conditions* (1988), this thought emerged as Zimbabwe navigated its post-independence identity. It reflected the hopes and challenges of a generation seeking to overcome colonial legacies and patriarchal traditions by actively shaping their own destiny.

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.