Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje was born on 25 March 1944 in the village of Kadango, in the Mangochi district. Trained at the University of Malawi and then in London, where he wrote a doctoral thesis in linguistics, he taught English at Chancellor College in Zomba and headed its department. Arrested on 25 September 1987, he was held without charge in Mikuyu prison until May 1991; Amnesty International regarded him as a prisoner of conscience. He then settled with his family in York, taught at English universities and published his memories of detention.

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• PoetryOf Chameleons and GodsJack Mapanje · 1981Literature