The writer was arrested during a demonstration on anti-corruption.

The writer zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested Friday during a demonstration on anti-corruption in Harare, noted a photographer of AFP.

Tsitsi Dangarembga, who has enjoyed success with his novel The Book of Not, was on board a police truck as she showed in the up market suburb of Borrowdale in the capital city of zimbabwe. “”Arrested! Has Borrowdale. Hope it will go”, she tweeted shortly after his arrest.

The author of a 61-year-old, regarded as a figure of feminism, has gained notoriety as a global in 1988 with a novel telling the story of the struggle of a young girl to escape poverty and access to education.