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Skipping Without Rope by Jack Mapanje

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Duration: 6:27
Updated: 25 May 2011

Prison sequence from After Mikuyu: work in progress performed at Oval House Theatre in 2006.

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Jack Mapanje launches his new book

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Duration: 4:59
Updated: 30 Jul 2012

On 8th December 2011, poet and former political prisoner Jack Mapanje launched his new book, 'And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night'. The event took place at Amnesty UK's Human Rights Action Centre, and was hosted by Gillian Slovo, President of English PEN.

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Jack Mapanje-Skipping Without Rope.mpg

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Duration: 2:54
Updated: 11 Oct 2012

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Jack Mapanje - Knowing Ways Conference

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Duration: 4:04
Updated: 17 Jul 2012

At North Edinburgh Arts Centre. September 2011. Sorry fhat the quality is not great.

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Jack Mapanje at poesiefestival berlin 2009

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Updated: 14 Jun 2010

Jack Mapanje (born 1944 in Malawi) debuted as a poet in 1981 with his collection Of Chameleons and Gods, which was subsequently banned in Malawi in 1985 for being unsuitable teaching material. In 1987, shortly before taking up a writer in residence fellowship in Zimbabwe, he was arrested and spent four years in prison in Malawi without trial. After his release he went with his family into exile in Britain, where he still lives and teaches. He did not return to his homeland until he visited in 2003 to do his first reading there. Mapanjes poetry is concerned with his experience of being a prisoner in Malawi, political regimes, the hypocrisy and prejudice of racist thinking and religious persecution. Mapanjes voice is full of bright irony, his tone full of anger; a hypnotic poetry of bold narrativity.

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Jack Mapanje - Malawi

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Duration: 3:08
Updated: 18 Oct 2012

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Acerca del poema de David Constantine (Jack Mapanje, Malawi)

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Duration: 1:46
Updated: 04 Aug 2012

Memoria del Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín. En el poema del poeta africano Jack Mapanje (Malawi), escrito en cautiverio, sobre un poema de David Constantine, el autor habla sobre la experiencia en prisión y de qué manera la poesía atraviesa los muros para alimentar la amorosa rebelión del sueño poético, antiguo y nuevo. Mapanje tomó parte en el XIII Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín en 2003. Jack Mapanje nació en Malawi en 1944. Poeta, lingüista, editor y activista de los Derechos Humanos. Es el poeta más famoso de Malawi. Fue Jefe del Departamento de Inglés de la Universidad de Malawi. Y actualmente profesor de la Universidad de Leeds. Por su poesía radical fue, en 1987, hecho prisionero cerca de tres años y medio, por la dictadura de su país, encabezada por Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Ha publicado los libros: Of Chameleons and Gods, Heinemann, 1981 & 1991 (Rotterdam International Poetry Award, 1988); The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison, Heinemann, 1993; Skipping Without Ropes, Bloodaxe Books, 1998; Oral Poetry from Africa: an anthology, Longmans, 1983; Summer Fires: New Poetry of Modern Africa, Heinemann, 1983 y The African Writers' Handbook, African Book Collective, 1999. En sus libros ha sabido relatar su experiencia como sobreviviente en la cárcel, gracias también a su gran sentido del humor. Por su contribución a la poesía africana ya la defensa de los Derechos Humanos, recibió en el presente año el Premio Fonlon-Nichols, de la Asociación de ...

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Jack Mapanje

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Duration: 2:16
Updated: 28 Apr 2010

Jack Mapanje werd in 1945 geboren in een dorp in Malawi. Hij studeerde aan de Universiteit van Malawi en het Institute of Education in Londen en trad in 1975 als docent Engels in dienst van de Universiteit van Malawi. Zijn eerste poëziebundel, Of Chameleons and Gods, verscheen in Engeland in 1981. Hij keerde terug naar Malawi, waar hij in 1984 hoofd werd van de vakgroep Engels van zijn universiteit. In Of Chameleons and Gods protesteerde hij nog met allusies en metaforen, die echter nauwelijks mis te verstaan waren. In The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison, geschreven in de gevangenis, zijn het zijn ballingschap en de deplorabele toestand van Malawi, inmiddels een land van wegversperringen en als ongeluk vermomde politieke liquidaties, die hem geen rust gunnen. In zijn bundel Skipping Without Ropes herinnert hij zich weer zijn gevangenistijd. De stank van pap is hiervan een pakkend voorbeeld: wie een paar jaar in een Malawische cel heeft gezeten, sleept de geestelijke wonden daarvan levenslang met zich mee.

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Nkhwachi Peter Mhango on the UK premiere of And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night

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Duration: 2:07
Updated: 03 Aug 2012

Nkhwachi Peter Mhango - a Special Projects Coordinator with Nanzikambe Theatre Company ( nanzikambearts.org ) - talks about performing the play, AND CROCODILES ARE HUNGRY AT NIGHT in Stratford-upon-Avon at Poetry for Amnesty ( www.shakespeare.org.uk ) on July 29 and about the subsequent performances that will be taking place at the Africa Centre in London from July 31 till August 18. The play is based on a memoir by Jack Mapanje.

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Mphundu Brian Mjumira on And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night

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Duration: 1:50
Updated: 22 Aug 2012

Mphundu Brian Mjumira - an actor with Nanzikambe Theatre Company ( nanzikambearts.org ) - talks about the play, AND CROCODILES ARE HUNGRY AT NIGHT which premiered in the UK in Stratford-upon-Avon at Poetry for Amnesty ( www.shakespeare.org.uk ) on July 29 and will be performed back-to-back at the Africa Centre in London from July 31 till August 18. The play is based on a memoir by Jack Mapanje.

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BYC in 'Success' by Nick Drake

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Duration: 4:46
Updated: 13 Jul 2012

BYC performance in NT Connections 2009. Filmed at Jacksons Lane Theatre.

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Theatre ... Theatre. And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night, Africa Centre, Covent Garden, WC2, to 18 Aug, africacentre.org.uk Music and poetry feature in this stage adaptation of a prison memoir by Malawian linguist and academic Jack Mapanje, who was held without charge for three-and-a-half-years by president Hastings Banda's regime. Music ... Comedy ... Dance ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)

This week's new theatre & dance

The Guardian

28 Jul 2012

Photo. PR ... Less well-known is that of Malawian linguist, academic and poet Jack Mapanje who was held without charge in 1987 by president Hastings Banda's regime for three-and-a-half years ... Now Mapanje's book, And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night, has been turned into an uplifting play with poetry and music, co-produced by Bilimankhwe Arts and Malawi's Nanzikambe Theatre Arts, and performed by nine Malawian actors ... Oh, The Humanity. Photo ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)

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27 Jul 2012

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Tony Benn tops bill at York Literature Festival

York Press

12 Jan 2012

Other events include guided tours of literary York; a discussion of the life of Charles Dickens to mark his bicentenary; and an event with award-wining poet and writer Jack Mapanje, who has lived in York since being freed from a Malawi prison where he was a prisoner of conscience ... and an event with award-winning poet and writer Jack Mapanje....(size: 3.2Kb)

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The Guardian

15 Nov 2011

Ludo Mich. Mich is in outstandingly good company - many of the greatest figures of 20th century literature have been proud to perform at the Morden Tower, including Poets Laureate and as well as everybody from Stevie Smith, Roger McGough, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman Nicholson, Simon Armitage, Jean Binta Breeze, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Liz Lochead, Jack Mapanje, Attila the Stockbroker, Lem Sissay and Kathleen Raine to John Hegley ... ....(size: 6.7Kb)

York must be a welcome place

York Press

19 Oct 2011

* JACK Mapanje and his family first came to live in York 20 years ago ... Jack was released – although even on his last day when a prison guard came to collect him, he feared he was being led to his death, rather than to freedom ... And, while Banda had bowed to international pressure, there was no reason to suppose he had forgiven or forgotten Jack ... “The children were saying, ‘Why don’t they give us the eggs so we can eat them?’” Jack says....(size: 10.6Kb)

Comedians and writers lead Amnesty campaign to free jailed UAE activists

The Guardian

07 Aug 2011

Photograph. Brad Barket/Getty Images ... In many cases, audiences will be asked to text during live performances ... "It is one of our core issues ... They will take part in Amnesty's free daily readings over 16 days from work by imprisoned and persecuted writers, including death row inmates from the US, the Malawian writer Jack Mapanje, the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and the US civil rights leader Martin Luther King ... Byrne said ... He added ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)

And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night by Jack Mapanje (ayebia, £12.99)

York Press

16 Jul 2011

For 20 years, York-based poet Jack Mapanje has been writing a book about his years as a political prisoner in a Malawi jail ... A day like any other for Jack Mapanje, head of English at the University of Malawi ... “Anyone here by the name of Mapanje? Dr Jack Mapanje?” ... The language was veiled, Jack says ... And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night by Jack Mapanje is published by ayebia, priced £12.99....(size: 6.6Kb)

Free at last... and they all owe their lives to Amnesty

The Guardian

03 Apr 2011

One man spent five years at Guantánamo Bay, where he was beaten and blinded; one woman was forced to stay awake for weeks ... Photograph ... KFJack Mapanje. Jack Mapanje ... Photograph ... Jack Mapanje is a Malawian poet and academic ... After three and a half years in prison, Mapanje was released in 1991 and moved to England shortly afterwards ... "Can you take Dr Mapanje to a prison that has no cockroaches and hope the president can forgive him one day?" ... ....(size: 22.3Kb)

Spotlight on literature at York St John University

York Press

12 Mar 2011

On Thursday, Dr Jack Mapanje will speak on memoir writing, as part of York St John University’s Town And Gown lecture series. Dr Mapanje is a distinguished writer who has published poetry and edited a ......(size: 1.0Kb)

Desert Island Discs: all the records and all the luxuries

The Guardian

15 Nov 2010

Hugh Masekela other A Keyboard “>Link Humphrey Lyttelton other A keyboard Ian Bostridge other A solar computer loaded with pictures of my family and friends Ian Rankin other Pinball machine (traditional American one) Imelda Staunton writing and drawing Modelling clay and tools Jack Higgins other Mobile phone Jack Mapanje music A guitar Jack ......(size: 57.7Kb)

Simon Armitage wins Keats-Shelley poetry prize

The Guardian

14 Oct 2010

The Present, about a futile search for icicles in Yorkshire, wins honour for a poem 'of modern relevance and Romantic inspiration' Romantic inspiration ... Simon Armitage. Photograph. Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian. A poem inspired by a vain search for icicles in the warm winter of 2008/9 has won Simon Armitage this year's Keats-Shelley poetry prize ... The prizes were given by chair of the judges, scholar and poet Jack Mapanje ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)

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Jack Mapanje (born 1944) is a Malawian writer and poet. He was the former head of English at the University of Malawi, and is currently a senior lecturer in English at Newcastle University.

Born in Kadango, Mapanje earned his PhD from the University of London.

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