"I don't think we'll ever reach freedom. I think that it's a thing we sometimes get closer to, and sometimes we move further away from. Some people believe that freedom is an individual matter. And they may have a lived context that allows them to believe that they are free. But something always happens that makes it clear that we are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to move towards it."
"Her life was a race to maintain her own voice as a psychiatrist, psychologist, writer and, when she failed to get her work published, filmmaker. After training to be a film director in Berlin, she returned to Zimbabwe to create a film school that looked to build up a local spirit of criticism, so that her country's history would no longer be solely explained from the outside."
The Nervous Conditions label traces to Sartre's prologue to Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, describing nerves born from loss of references and inability to understand one's place. Dangarembga experienced this after returning to Zimbabwe following upbringing with a British foster family. She pursued careers as psychiatrist, psychologist, filmmaker, and created a film school after training in Berlin to foster a local spirit of criticism and ensure Zimbabwean history is not explained solely from outside. Her husband runs the school and their three children live in Berlin. She describes freedom as a desire, attainable in moments but never fully reached, constrained by colonial structures.
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