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Greetings from Grandpa / Jack Mapanje.
- Title
- Greetings from Grandpa / Jack Mapanje.
- Author
- Mapanje, Jack
- Publication
- Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 80 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences with dogged wit in his previous books. In Greetings from Grandpa - his sixth collection - Mapanje is still effervescent, with his wry humour defiantly intact. Some treacherous African tyrants may have been deposed or died horrific deaths, leaving their snoops in exile washing cars to survive - but these are mere metaphors of another life. The narratives in Greetings from Grandpa are mellow and cheerful testimonies of the sojourn of the human spirit as it survives freedom under implausible circumstances, whether at home or in exile."--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Imagining home -- Surviving freedom in Sunderland -- Lu's home delivery (Welwyn Garden City) -- The carwash, Clifton Moor, York -- Princess Alexandra smiling (Luxembourg) -- Some Anglo-Deutsch-Malawi wedding! -- Watching Palestinins being butchered -- The three people I met in diaspora -- Grandpa travelling again? -- Greetings from Grandpa -- The three dikgosi of Gaborone -- The rush for independence celebrations -- Load-shedding -- First Lobatse International Beef Festival -- Farewell to the mopipi tree -- The note (On returning home) -- Crossing Linthipe Bridge II -- Balamanja North Breach revisited -- Our anthology of martyrs thickens -- On his divine reprieve: a confession -- Considering our golden jubilees -- The white elephants of home -- When Egypt went up in flames -- Another TV death so mean: Libya -- Somaliland rebuilding, Hargeysa: an outsider's view -- Saved from Comrade Hippo's grace -- Thanksgiving -- Now that they have brought Athena down -- Kilkakanje of Ostrich forest.
- ISBN
- 1780373112
- 9781780373119
- OCLC
- 921865421
- SCSB-10833495
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library