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Jack Mapanje’s memoir is a moving account of his imprisonment by the Malawian state. In 1981, as a budding poet and scholar, his first poetry collection *Of Chameleons and Gods* had just appeared in the African Writers Series, and his linguistic research was influencing studies across central Africa. Two years later, the government ordered the removal of his work from all bookshops, libraries, and institutions of learning. In September 1987, Mapanje was arrested and detained without charge for nearly four years. The book recalls those prison years with his unique voice, describing the terror of arrest, the reality of incarceration, and his daily struggle to retain sanity and spiritual freedom.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Jack Mapanje
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