Tsitsi Dangarembga: “The patriarchal and colonial system wants us silenced”

Writer and filmmaker, Tsitsi Dangarembga uses storytelling as a tool for both denunciation and emancipation. In this interview, she speaks about the body, memory and silence as battlegrounds for African women and reflects on the role of literature in challenging patriarchal and colonial structures. With a critical and committed perspective, Dangarembga champions writing as an act of resistance and a means of reconstructing the female subject in contexts of violence and oppression. An interview by Salima Jirari.

CCCB Resident Programme, in collaboration with the Open University of Catalonia and with support from the MIR-PUIG Private Foundation.

28 April 2025