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Title:
The chattering wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Author:
Mapanje, Jack.
ISBN:
9780435911980
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Publication Information:
Jordan Hill, Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H. ; Heinemann, 1993.
Physical Description:
x, 99 p. ; 20 cm.
Series:
African writers series
Series Title:
African writers series
Contents:
Another Fools' Day Touches Down: Shush -- Kadango Village, Even Milimbo Lagoon Is Dry -- Of Our Chiefs and Their Concubines -- Easter Apologies for Bubble Dreams -- The Haggling Old Woman at Balaka -- The Rise of the New Toadies (1983) -- For Another Village Politburo Projected -- No, Creon, There's No Virtue in Howling -- The 1984 Martyrs' Day Prayer -- When the Shire Valley Dries Up Patiently -- Vigil for a Fellow Credulous Captive -- Seasoned Jacarandas -- Smiller's Bar Revisited (1983) -- Baobab Fruit Picking (or Development in Monkey Bay) -- Moving into Monkey Bay (Balamanja North) -- The Farms That Gobble the Land at Home -- Flying Over the Summer Haze of Home (1983/4) -- Burning the Witch for Rains (The Dark Case) -- For Fear of Which Mandrax Images & Which Death? -- Chilling Jan Smuts Airport In-Transito (1984) -- On Banning Of Chameleons and Gods (June, 1985) -- April Wishes for 20 Gordon Square, London (A Letter, 1987) -- Out of Bounds (or Our Maternity Asylum).

The Streak-Tease at Mikuyu Prison, 25 September 1987 -- Fears from Mikuyu Cells for Our Loves -- The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison -- Scrubbing the Furious Walls of Mikuyu -- The Famished Stubborn Ravens of Mikuyu -- To the Unknown Dutch Postcard-Sender (1988) -- Mikuyu Prison Visit of Head of Detainees -- The Tale of a Dzeleka Prison Hard-Core Hero -- The Trip of Chief Commissioner of Prisons (1990) -- The Delight of Aerial Signs of Release -- The Release: Who Are You, Imbongi? -- Tethered Border Fugitives upon Release -- These Straggling Mudhuts of Kirk Range -- The Baobab Trees of Our New Dependence -- Your Tears Still Burn at My Handcuffs (1991) -- Where Dissent Is Meat for Crocodiles -- Canadian Geese Flying Over Alison's House -- You Caught Me Slipping Off Your Shoulders Once -- The Souvenir Shards of My Berlin Wall -- For Madame Potiphar's Wasteaways -- In Memoriam (For Orton Chirwa, 20 October 1992) -- The Deluge after Our Gweru Prison Dreams.
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