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Poet Behind Bars
Jack Mapanje is Malawis most famous poet - he was put in prison without trial or charge
Jack Mapanje is Malawi's most famous poet. In 1987 Dr Hastings Banda, the President of Malawi, imprisoned him without trial or charge.
Jack was kept in prison for three years and he describes the appalling conditions there. He continued to write poems, keeping them in his memory and reciting them to keep sane.
