Benjamin Leshoai - Revision history

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 For a while, he was Principal at Lady Selborne High School. Later he became manager of [[Union Artists]] at [[Dorkay House]].
-Leshoai left South Africa in 1963 to teach in Zambia (Head of English at Mufulira Teachers' College) and Tanzania in 1968 (Associate Professor and Head of Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Dar-Es-Salaam. In 1974, he became Professor of Literature at the [[University of Bophuthatswana]].
+Leshoai left South Africa in 1963 to teach in Zambia (Head of English at Mufulira Teachers' College) and in Tanzania (from 1968, as Associate Professor and Head of Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Dar-Es-Salaam). In 1974, he became Professor of Literature at the [[University of Bophuthatswana]].
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 == Sources ==
 (See [[Sydney Paul Gosher|Gosher]], 1988)
 Various entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue.
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-In 1964, Leshoai spent a month at the Cort Theatre on Broadway with the [[Alan Paton]]/[[Krishma Shak]] production of ''[[Sponono]]''.
+In 1964, Leshoai spent a month at the Cort Theatre on Broadway with the [[Alan Paton]]/[[Krishna Shah]] production of ''[[Sponono]]''.
 He wrote a number of plays, some of which were published, others banned. His one-act play ''[[Revolution]]'' (1972) for example was one of the first to advocate violence as a viable course of action for blacks, although his other one-act plays  are concerned more with social themes.

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		+	In 1964, Leshoai spent a month at the Cort Theatre on Broadway with the [[Alan Paton]]/[[Krishma Shak]] production of ''[[Sponono]]''.
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	He wrote a number of plays, some of which were published, others banned. His one-act play ''[[Revolution]]'' (1972) for example was one of the first to advocate violence as a viable course of action for blacks, although his other one-act plays are concerned more with social themes.		He wrote a number of plays, some of which were published, others banned. His one-act play ''[[Revolution]]'' (1972) for example was one of the first to advocate violence as a viable course of action for blacks, although his other one-act plays are concerned more with social themes.

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 == Biography ==
-Born in Bloemfontein and educated at [[University of Fort Hare]] and the University of Illinois, Leshoai left South Africa to teach in Zambia and Tanzania, and later became Professor of Literature at the [[University of Bophuthatswana]].
+Born in Bloemfontein and educated at [[University of Fort Hare]] (majoring in English and Native Administration) and the University of Illinois (MA in Theatre Arts and Speech).
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 ''[[The Wake]]'' (one-act play, 1964)
 ''[[The Weather Forecast]]'' (one-act play, 1971)
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 ''[[Morati of Bataung]]'' (full-length play, written for [[AMDA]], 19**)
-''[[Lines Draw Monsters]]'' (full-length play, written 1965, first performed by [[FUBA]] drama students under the direction of [[Sisho Maphisa]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1982).
+''[[The Wrath of the Ancestors]]''
 A collection of his plays was published in 1971 under the title ''[[The Wrath of the Ancestors and Other Plays]]'' (Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House).

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 ''[[The Rightful Chief]]'' (one-act play)
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+''[[Revolution]]'' (one-act play, 1972)
 ''[[Morati of Bataung]]'' (full-length play, written for [[AMDA]], 19**)

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 He wrote a number of plays, some of which were published, others banned. His one-act play ''[[Revolution]]'' (1972) for example was one of the first to advocate violence as a viable course of action for blacks, although his other one-act plays such as ''[[The Wake]]'' (1964), ''[[The Weather Forecast]]'' (1971), ''[[The Rendezvous]]'' (1972), and ''[[The Rightful Chief]]'' are concerned more with social themes.
-A collection of his plays was published in 1971 under the title ''The Wrath of the Ancestors and Other Plays'' (Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House).
+A collection of his plays was published in 1971 under the title ''[[The Wrath of the Ancestors and Other Plays]]'' (Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House).
 He is also the author of two full-length plays ''[[Morati of Bataung]]'' (written for [[AMDA]], 19**) and ''[[Lines Draw Monsters]]'' (written 1965, first performed by [[FUBA]] drama students under the direction of [[Sisho Maphisa]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1982).