Malawian Resistance Literature

Dike Okoro, Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University, USA, is currently serving a two-year term as Senior Research Fellow with the Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation. His accolades include the Newberry Scholar-in-Residence Award and the Sam Walton Fellowship. He is the author of Futurism and the African Imagination: Literature and Other Arts (2021), Mazisi Kunene: Literature, Activism, and African Worldview (2023), and Lupenga Mphande: Ecocritical Poet/Political Activist (2020). Okoro studied English and poetry, earning his MFA from Chicago State University and his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A noted literary critic and essayist, he has edited several anthologies of African poetry and short stories. His edited volume We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa was shortlisted by Human Rights Careers Magazine (UK) as one of five Vocal Human Rights Poetry Books inspiring change.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: National Memory and Myth in the poetry of Frank Chipasula, Stella Chipasula, Edison Mpina, Lupenga Mphande, Steve Chimombo Jack Mapanje and Others.- Chapter 3: Tragic Vision and Historical realism: A Discussion of Malawian poetry in Jack Mapanje‘s Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing and other prison narratives by Malawian poets during Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda‘s reign as president.- Chapter 4: Aspects of futurism (Africanfuturism or African futurism) in Malawian speculative fiction.- Chapter 5: The Depiction of Motherhood/Mother in Malawian/Southern African literature: A Discussion of Symbols and Metaphors.- Chapter 6: Celebrating the heritage that is your own: the importance of myth, symbolism, and African history in the work of British/Malawian artist/writer, Samson Kambalu.- Chapter 7: A Brief History of Malawi Literature and Performance Arts and The Gulu Wam Kulu Dance Group (A Conversation between Dike Okoro and Lupenga Mphande).- Chapter 8: Teaching African history through literature: A Discussion context and content in the works of Paul Zeleza, Jack Mapanje, Lupenga Mphande and Others.- Chapter 9: Malawian poetry‘s rich oral tradition: Discussing the poetry of Jack Mapanje, Felix Mnthali, Steve Chimimbo, Frank Chipasula, Zondiwe Mbano and Lupenga Mphande.- Chapter 10: Lupenga Mphande: Autobiographical Poet of Thoza, Malawi.