Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare. Clare...

A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.

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. Skipping without Ropes is his third and most varied collection, with poems on his...

This is a modern rendition in written form, of the popular Malawian folktale, ‘The Orphan and the Slave’, passed down through oral tradition. The traditional version, included alongside this modern work of fiction, tells of a boy who is...

When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees. This is his story of how...

Formerly Head of English at the University of Malawi, Mapanje was arrested and imprisoned without trial for four years. In these poems of power and unflinching description, he condemns a brutal regime. Today, living in England, he celebrates the...

These twenty-four vignettes about a woman’s sojourn as a Peace Corps worker in Malawi and Niger, Africa place the author among the best writers of contemporary travel literature. With heightened awareness of her surroundings, including a description of a...

Binti’s father is dying from Aids, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. As Binti and her brother and sister slowly begin to understand what this means, they begin to realise too that not...

Samson Kambalu’s father wore three-piece, London-made suits from the Sixties. He’d planned to be a doctor but settled for hospital administration and a peripatetic lifestyle with his ever expanding family in tow. He is ‘the Jive Talker’ of this...

In this popular trickster tale from Malawi, Judy Sierra retells the story of how Kamba the tortoise gets his revenge when Fisi, the mean hyena, sticks him between two branches of a tree. Kamba’s solution? Of course, paint all...