Jack Mapanje

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005 by BBC

Oct 24, 200434:16Society & Culture

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the poet Dr Jack Mapanje who is one of the most important living African poets. He was born into a poor household in a typical African village in 1944, when Malawi (then Nyasaland) was...

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