Stars below instead of above! I wanted to see them straight away. I prayed for a miracle, for the sun to set. - Tsitsi Dangarembga

Plunging into these books I knew I was being educated and I was filled with gratitude to the authors for introducing me to places where reason and inclination were not at odds. It was a centripetal time, with meat the centre, everything gravitating towards me. It was a time of sublimation with me as the sublimate.

The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time.

How about forgetting? you say. Sometimes forgetting is better than remembering when nothing can be done. Forgetting is harder than you think, says Nyasha. Especially when something can be done. And ought to be. It's a question of choices.