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ISBN	9789996084430
Pages	186
Dimensions	210x148 mm
Published	2024
Publisher	Kachere Series, Malawi
Format	Paperback

Yoranivyoto

by Felix Mnthali

What keeps and attractive academic tied to the memory of a man she marries when he is about to die? What do people who have been jailed without trial have to say to one another and to posterity? What do they really long for as they languish in detention? What is love? How does it survive persecution? Has the last word been written about Dr Banda? What really brought him to power and how did he manage to wield it for so long? In this, his first novel, the poet Felix Mnthali tries to answer some of these questions asked here. He also gives us brief vignettes of his own life as well as sketches of the history of his beloved country of Malawi. ...constructed in a fascinating way, like a musical symphony, one tune leading into another, merging and accumulating a harmony or discord to form a satisfying whole, it certainly stands the 'test' of a literary work. Literature succeeds better than history in bringing to life the reality of that history. [Pat Bryden]

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About the Author

Felix Mnthali

Felix Mnthali is best known as a poet whose collection When Sunset Comes to Sapitwa was published in 1982. He, in poems like 'The Stranglehold of English lit., like David Rubadiri and others were pioneers in the peri-and post-inde-pendence era examination of colonialism and neocolonialism. His poetry has appeared in anthologies in Africa, Europe and America. He is an academic who went into writing as a way of helping young people who were featured on the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation's radio programme 'Writers Corner, which he started and chaired between 1969 and 1976. His detention without trial in 1976, just when he had risen to the rank of professor, and his year-long stay at the University of Ibadan in 1979/80 steered his writing in new directions and gave it a muscle and tone it has long retained. He was Professor of English at the University of Botswana from 1982 until his retirement. In between teaching, research and writing critical essays he has gathered two volumes of poetry and written three novels. Felix is living in retirement in Mzuzu with his family.