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, Nervous Conditions Notes

Setting
- Rhodesia
- Umtali = Rhodesia’s third largest town
- Salisbury = Rhodesia’s capital
- Bulawayo = Bigger than Umtali
- Rutivi= where the children’s school is

Characters
Tambu
- Speaker
- 13 years old (Standard Three)(pg. 12) when Nhamo died in 1968 (pg.
1)
- Should have been in Standard Five in 1968 (pg. 12)
- Sisi Tambu (pg. 9)
- One year younger than Nhamo (pg. 13)
- 5 years old in 1960 (pg. 13)
- Loved going to school and was good at it (pg. 15)
- 8 years old when she started growing her own crops (pg. 20)
- Tambudzai (pg. 23)
- Wilful and headstrong (pg. 25)
- First in her class for Sub A and Sub B (pg. 31)
- Went to mission school in 1963 (ph. 95)

Lucia
- Mainini’s little sister
- Several years younger than Mainini (pg. 127)
- Wild woman (pg. 127)
- Beautiful (pg. 127)
- Dark with a light undertone (pg. 127)
- Glowing and healthy (pg. 127)
- Hard worker (pg. 129)
- Bigamist (pg. 129)

Mainini
- Tambu’s mother
- Wife to Jeremiah
- Intelligent, disciplined (pg. 14)
- Has been offered a scholarship by the missionaries (pg. 14)