tsitsi dangarembga, in harare, welcome to hardtalk.our latest book, this mournable body, centres on a female character, tambu. is it a personal story, or is it a history of modern zimbabwe? zeinab, i find that my work generally intersects between the personal and the national and the historical, because the national and the historical have a lot to do in determining what the person can do, what a character can do, whether this is in real life or in a novel. i do want my work to be realistic, or at least i have done up until now, because i have wanted people in zimbabwe and on the continent to engage from a perspective of recognition, to be able to say, "yes, this is us." and i also wanted to present characters like the people i meet in everyday life to the rest of the world. so, there you have tambu, your main character... it's actually a trilogy of books which you've written over 30 years, this is the third one. and she fights prejudice in all sorts of ways — against race, you know, gender discrimination, all the rest of it. but in th