Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

     Lately we have been reading a book entitled Nervous Conditions.  The book was written by the author whose name is Tsitsi Dangarembga. The book is based on the life of a girl named Tambu and her family.  In the 1940's, which is around the time period that Dangerembga placed Tambu, their was much inequality between men and women.  Tambu lived in Rhodesia or modern day Zimbabwe.  She lived with her mother and her father and her many siblings who all helped on around the house, in the fields, or helped cook dinner.
     In the chapters that we read for homework Nyasha's disrespectful actions leads her to be physically and emotionally, and possibly mentally damaged from the harm her father inflicted on her.  I couldn't believe Nyasha had the audacity to strike her father in his face.  That was very surprising, but what I couldn't understand is the way that the father dealt with the situation by taking his daughters head and bashing against the floor. I understand that his daughter disrespected him and I understand that she needed to be disciplined, but that form of discipline was just cruel and scary.