Steve Chimombo

Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo (4 September 1945 – 11 December 2015) ^[1] was a Malawian writer, poet, editor and teacher. He was born in Zomba.^[2]

Life

He was educated at Zomba Catholic Secondary School, then at the University of Malawi where he earned a B.A.^[3][4] At the University of Wales, he took a teaching diploma in English as a Second Language. At Columbia University in the United States, he was awarded his M.A. and Ph.D. in teaching.^[5] After studying at Leeds, England, Chimombo returned to Malawi to edit the literary bulletin Outlook-lookout.^[6]

He was a professor of English at

The poet Stanley Onjezani Kenani wrote the following appreciation of Chimombo: "Except for J.W. Gwengwe, D.D. Phiri, Jack Mapanje, and Francis Chipasula, I cannot think of any Malawian who has contributed more to Malawian literature than Prof. Chimombo."^[9] He died at the age of 70 on 11 December 2015 in Blantyre.^[9]

Works

Poetry

• Napolo Poems, Manchichi Publishers, 1987
• Python! Python! An Epic Poem, Wasi Publications, 1992
• Napolo and the Python, Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1994,
  ISBN 978-0-435-91199-7

• The Basket Girl, Popular Publications, 1990
• The Wrath of Napolo, Wasi Publications, 2000,
  ISBN 978-99908-48-06-9

• The Bird Boy's Song, Wasi Publications, 2002,
  ISBN 978-99908-48-07-6

• Malawian Oral Literature: The Aesthetics of Indigenous Arts (1988)[7]
• The Culture of Democracy: Language, Literature, the Arts and Politics in Malawi, 1992–94 (1996)

Anthologies

• ISBN 978-0-435-90566-8
  . Steve Chimombo.
• ISBN 978-0-14-042472-0
  .