The collection reveals Mapanje's initial reaction to the banning of his last volume in Malawi and his subsequent imprisonment in Mikuyu Prison, and includes poems written since his release and exile from his native land.
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The collection reveals Mapanje's initial reaction to the banning of his last volume in Malawi and his subsequent imprisonment in Mikuyu Prison, and includes poems written since his release and exile from his native land.
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Portsmouth. 1993. Heinemann. 1st African Writers Series Edition. Trace of A Waterstain to Last few Pages of Side Edge, Otherwise Good in Wrappers. 0435911988. African Writers Series. 99 pages. paperback. Cover illustration by Janie Coath. keywords: Literature Malawi Africa. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Only now, with freedom, can Jack Mapanje speak of his harrowing ordeal in Mikuyu Prison, where ‘desperate voices of fractured souls' clamour to be heard. In poems of uncommon power and unflinching description Mapanje condemns a Yet in these poems Mapanje also affirms the enduring love of family and friends and the spirit of his fellow detainees. Today, living in England, he celebrates the hope kept alive by those who fight for human rights. `Protest can take many forms, and in Jack Mapanje's pen it can even take on the form of beauty. '-KUNAPIPI. inventory #46185.
