Tsitsi Dangarembga on Zimbabwe

"Zimbabwe is a very complex issue. I think one of the most common misconceptions is that everything would work out in my country if President Mugabe were removed from office. This is a frighteningly simplistic and reductionist way of looking at a problem that has historical antecedents stretching back over a century. It is very unfortunate that some of our major opposition parties take this position because I think that such an over-simplification prevents the level of analysis we require to come up with solutions".-- Tsitsi Dangarembga in an interview with Per Contra.

I have always turned to writers for insights on issues bedevilling one country or another, after newspapers and TV have failed me.

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