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Jack Mapanje
Died November 4, 2026
Jack Mapanje died on November 4, 2026. No official cause of death has been released. Readers are working out what happened on this page.
Jack Mapanje was a Malawian writer and poet. He was the head of English at the Chancellor College, the main campus of the University of Malawi before being imprisoned in 1987 for his collection Of Chameleons and Gods, which indirectly criticized the administration of President Hastings Banda. Mapanje was released in 1991 and emigrated to the UK, where he worked as a teacher.
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Wikipedia's entry on the day: Jack Mapanje, 82, Malawian writer and poet (Of Chameleons and Gods).
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