Acclaimed Zimbabwe author slapped with arrest warrant

A lawyer for Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga says a warrant for her arrest has been issued after she failed to appear in court over charges of inciting violence.

The lawyer said his client was seeing a doctor in Germany and had missed court for medical reasons.

Dangarembga was arrested in 2020 and freed on bail for staging an anti-government protest in Harare.

She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018 and her first novel Nervous Conditions won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize - as well as being named as one of the top 100 books that shaped the world by a BBC panel.

The author has filed to have the case thrown out for lack of evidence.

This article originally appeared on BBC News

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