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The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison

A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.

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Of Chameleons and Gods

This anthology introduces the African literature of incarceration to the general reader, the scholar, the activist and the student. The visions and prison cries of the few African nationalists imprisoned by colonialists, who later became leaders of their independent dictatorships and in turn imprisoned their own writers and other radicals, are brought into sharper focus, thereby critically exposing the ironies of varied generations of the efforts of freedom fighters. Extracts of prose, poetry and plays are grouped into themes such as arrest, interrogation, torture, survival, release and truth and reconciliation. Contributors include: Kunle Ajibade, Obafemi Awolowo, Steve Biko, Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Nawal El Saadawi, M J Kariuki, Kenneth Kaunda, Caesarina Kona Makhoere, Nelson Mandela, Emma Mashinini, Felix Mnthali, Augustino Nato, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kwame Nkrumah, Abe Sachs, Ken Saro Wiwa, Wole Soyinka, and Koigi wa Wamwere. Although an often harrowing indictment of the history, culture and politics of the African continent and the societies from which this literature comes, the anthology presents excellent prose, poetry and drama, which stands up in its own right as serious literature to be cherished, read and studied.

African Prison Writing

Gathering Seaweed

With new struggles ever more evident in Africa today. Jack Mapanje has returned to his concern for ordinary people in Africa and in the world at large, themes that make his poetry inspirational in Malawi and throughout Africa. These new poems are boldly lyrical narratives, cunningly crafted in mesmerizing spirals. His voice is still ironically cheerful, his tone impotently angry--but confidently measured with wit and humor, however bleak. Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial by the dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, and chronicled his experiences in his poetry. This new collection addresses the soul struggling to liberate itself, and fighting against the beasts of silences that threaten the lives of Africans everyday.

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