The protagonist of a play by this author is rejected by her lover Freddy after he learns of her pregnancy, but later becomes a successful single mother who starts a thriving legal practice. A collection of three essays by this author includes “Writing While Black and Female” and “Black, Female, and the Superwoman Black Feminist.” In a novel by this author, the protagonist’s teacher takes her to a local urban center to sell ears of corn, where a white couple gives her ten pounds. This author of the play She No Longer Weeps opens a novel with the confession “I was not sorry when my brother died.” A novel by this author begins with the death of Nhamo, who had been studying away from home with his uncle Babamukuru and his cousin Nyasha. For 10 points, name this Zimbabwean author who wrote about Tambu’s efforts to attend school in her novel Nervous Conditions. ■END■
ANSWER: Tsitsi Dangarembga (The essay collection is “Black and Female.”)
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