Who Am I?

In Mandi Chikombero's "Dysfunctional Literacies of Exclusion: An Exploration of the Burdens of Literacy in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions", examines the burden of literacy among the women of the Zimbabwe's culture.

"Look what they've done to us....I'm not one of them but I'm not one of you."  --Nyasha in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988). 
This question/statement poses an Identity issue, not literacy. 

According to Chikombero, literacy has been defined as "the ability to read and write, or the state of being knowledgeable or competent.  It speaks to a deep understanding of one's environment and one's ability to exist in and uphold that environment (150). 
In the context of Nervous Conditions, the characters described all had some form of literarcy, be it traditional (oral traditions, myths, legends, folktales,songs, and dance(151) or colonial (academic(153).  But after further reading, having both or just one type of literacy, the woman were struggling with who they were within their form of literacy. 
Tambu is the main character of the story.  Surrounding Tambu was her mother( traditional and passive ), her aunt ( traditional but not passive), her aunt (traditional and colonial but passive) and her cousin (traditional and colonial but aggressive).  Tambu learns that having either form of literacy really did not change your role in society. So in the end, the woman must discover who they are within their literacy confinements.  Discovery of who you are is the main issue.  These woman were very aware of their role, now they needed to learn who they were and how to best use that knowledge to live life out in the culture that they were in. 
That is why I pose the question of "Who am I?"