It wasn't African literature that I came to first. It was t… - Tsitsi Dangarembga

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It wasn't African literature that I came to first. It was the Afro-American women writers, I found them very helpful. (Such as, for example?) Toni Morrison, who is really incredible. Then I read Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, and of course there are several others I can't remember right now.

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Tsitsi Dangarembga (born February 4, 1959) is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.

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