Jack Mapanje
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 80 |
| Date of birth | March 25,1944 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Mangochi |
| Malawi | |
| Job | Poet |
| Academic | |
| Education | University of Malawi |
| University of London | |
| University College London | |
| Awards | Rotterdam |
| Poetry International | |
| PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award | |
| Barbara Goldsmith | |
| Nationality | Malawian |
| Known for | poetry, 1987-91 imprisonment |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1358801 |
Banned Poetry
Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing
A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi
An Elegy Wrote in an English Churchyard
The last of the sweet bananas
Jack Mapanje: Reading from His Poems
And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night: A Memoir
Greetings from Grandpa
Of Chameleons and Gods
The chattering wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Skipping without ropes
Beasts of Nalunga
Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing
A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi
An Elegy Wrote in an English Churchyard
The last of the sweet bananas
Jack Mapanje: Reading from His Poems
And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night: A Memoir
Greetings from Grandpa
Of Chameleons and Gods
The chattering wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Skipping without ropes
Beasts of Nalunga
Jack Mapanje Life story
Jack Mapanje is a Malawian writer and poet. He was the head of English at the Chancellor College, the main campus of the University of Malawi before being imprisoned in 1987 for his collection Of Chameleons and Gods, which indirectly criticized the administration of President Hastings Banda.
Jack Mapanje Photos
