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And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night [Kindle Edition]

Jack Mapanje

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Jack Mapanje's memoir not only chronicles his imprisonment in Malawi without trial for 3 years, 7 months and 16 days but also sets out how the life of a poet and academic is viciously destroyed by the absence of academic freedom. Brilliantly crafted,with a touch of humour even in grim circumstances, this is a moving contribution to the growing world literature of incarceration. As such it has universal appeal.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 2308 KB
  • Print Length: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd (1 July 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007L5H9AG
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #58,380 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping memoir set in the later years of Malawi's Banda era. 8 Nov 2011
By John C. Duffell - Published on Amazon.com
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I started reading this yesterday on the plane and have done little else since. Just about finished now.

This is one of the best books I've picked up this year, and far & away the best account of the Banda era that I have ever read. Jack Mapanje communicates the distrust and paranoia that permeated Malawian society without hitting you over the head with his point. His writing is expertly paced. Even as he describes in agonizing detail the drudgery of prison life, the book remains compelling reading.

I've read prison memoirs before (Fearless Fighter: The Life of Vera Chirwa is also worth a read), but none has ever felt so real to me. This book brought me to tears more than once.
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