The Last of the Sweet Bananas: New & Selected Poems

by Jack Mapanje

Because he was a radical poet, Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. The themes of his poetry range from the search for a sense of dignity and integrity under a repressive regime, incarceration, release from prison, exile and return to Africa, and reconciliation with torturers, to the writer in Africa and the continuing African liberation struggle in a hostile world. While...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852246650
• ISBN13: 9781852246655
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"