Research Catalog

Title

And crocodiles are hungry at night : a memoir / by Jack Mapanje.

Author

Mapanje, Jack.

Publication

Banbury : Ayebia Clarke, 2011.

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Description

435 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Jack Mapanjeʹs memoir is the moving account of his imprisonment by the Malawian state and his struggle to probe the hidden motives behind his arrest. In 1981, Mapanje was a budding poet and scholar; his first collection of poems, Of Chameleons and Gods, had just been published in the prestigious African Writers Series, and his work on linguistics was having an impact on language and literary studies in central Africa and beyond. Just two years later, however, the government ordered the withdrawal of his poetry from all bookshops, libraries, and institutions of learning. And in September 1987, he was arrested and held without charge for nearly four years. This new book recalls those prison years as Mapanje records in his unique voice the terror of arrest, the reality of incarceration, and his daily struggle to retain a solid measure of sanity and spiritual freedom. -- Description from http://www.amazon.com (Jan. 25, 2012).

Subject

• Mapanje, Jack
• Noncitizen detention centers > Malawi
• Political prisoners > Malawi > Biography

Note

• "A chronicle of a poet's imprisonment under life president Banda of Malawi." -- T.p.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Book one : The hell-hole --- Book two : Hold them tight --- Book three : Lion of Mikuyu --- Book four : Birthday in prison --- Book five : The Edinburgh connection --- Book six : The escape --- Book seven : After twenty-two months --- Book eight : The Mandela effect --- Book nine : Getting my job back --- Book ten : Goodbye the jacarandas of home.

ISBN

• 9780956240170 (pbk.)
• 0956240178 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library