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          Poet Jack Mapanje was....

          Jack Mapanje

          Malawian writer and poet (born 1944)

          Jack Mapanje (born 25 March 1944)[1] is a Malawian writer and poet.

          Jack Mapanje (born 25 March ) is a Malawian writer and poet.

        1. Jack Mapanje was born of Yao and Nyanja parents in Kadango Village, Mangochi District, in southern Malawi.
        2. Poet Jack Mapanje was.
        3. Nationality: Malawian.
        4. Jack Mapanje is a poet, linguist, editor and human rights activist.

          5. He was the head of English at the Chancellor College, the main campus of the University of Malawi before being imprisoned in 1987 for his collection Of Chameleons and Gods, which indirectly criticized the administration of President Hastings Banda.

          He was released in 1991 and emigrated to the UK, where he worked as a teacher.

          Background

          The child of Nyanja and Yao parents, John Alfred Clement ("Jack") Mapanje was born in Kadango Village, Mangochi District, Malawi.[1] He received his BA in education from the University of London and worked for a time as a lecturer in Malawi before returning to the UK to study linguistics at University College, London in the early 1980s.[2]

          He subsequently became head of the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Malawi.[3]

          Imprisonment

          During the rule of Pr