Jack Mapanje

  • Jack  Mapanje
Writer
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Malawi

Jack Mapanje (born 1944) 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. He was released in 1991 and emigrated to the UK, where he worked as a teacher. For his biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Mapanje

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