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	[[Chris Dunton]]. "Sologa, Eneka, and the Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa" In: ''[[Research in African Literatures]]'', Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 153-162. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820537]		[[Chris Dunton]]. "Sologa, Eneka, and the Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa" In: ''[[Research in African Literatures]]'', Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 153-162. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820537]
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		+	A photocopy of the published text held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], Stellenbosch.

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 A comedy about a young unemployed Lagos man called Basi, who devises many tricks for not paying his rent to the landlady and generally surviving on the edge in the big city with bright lights.
-The play was originally written as a review sketch at the University of Ibadan in 1964, before it was fleshed out and to become a 600 line stage play. The stage text has been published in a variety of collections, e.g. ''Four Farcical Plays'' (1989) by Saros International,  [[African Theatre]]'' by [[Heinemann]] and in ''[[Open Space]]'' by [[Kagiso Publishers]].
+The play was originally written as a review sketch at the University of Ibadan in 1964, before it was fleshed out and to become a 600 line stage play. The stage text has been published in a variety of collections, e.g. ''Four Farcical Plays'' (1989) by Saros International,  [[African Theatre]]'' by [[Heinemann]] and in ''[[Open Space: Six Contemporary Plays From Africa]]'' by [[Kagiso Publishers]].
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa
-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu. 2021. The Literary Lives of Ken Saro-Wiwa", ''This Day''[https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/15/the-literary-lives-and-times-of-ken-saro-wiwa/]
+Uzor Maxim Uzoatu. 2021. "The Literary Lives of Ken Saro-Wiwa", ''This Day''[https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/15/the-literary-lives-and-times-of-ken-saro-wiwa/]
 https://www.worldcat.org/title/transistor-radio/oclc/937274565

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa
-https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/15/the-literary-lives-and-times-of-ken-saro-wiwa/
+Uzor Maxim Uzoatu. 2021. The Literary Lives of Ken Saro-Wiwa", ''This Day''[https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/15/the-literary-lives-and-times-of-ken-saro-wiwa/]
 https://www.worldcat.org/title/transistor-radio/oclc/937274565

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	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa
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		+	https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/15/the-literary-lives-and-times-of-ken-saro-wiwa/

	https://www.worldcat.org/title/transistor-radio/oclc/937274565		https://www.worldcat.org/title/transistor-radio/oclc/937274565

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	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	The text was turned into a radio play in 1971 and submitted for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), London playwriting competition called “Write A Play For Africa”, winning a joint foruth prize. (The first prize went to South African [[Richard Rive]] ''[[Make Like Slaves]]''). It was recorded and broadcast by the BBC on July 23, 1972.
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		+	The text then became a television play, providing the impetus for and forming the second episode in the popular Nigerian television series about "Basi and Company".

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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	[[Chris Dunton]]. "Sologa, Eneka, and the Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa" In: ''[[Research in African Literatures]]'', Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 153-162. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820537]		[[Chris Dunton]]. "Sologa, Eneka, and the Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa" In: ''[[Research in African Literatures]]'', Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 153-162. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820537]

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	The stage text has been published in a variety of collections, e.g. ''Four Farcical Plays'' (1989) by Saros International, [[African Theatre]]'' by [[Heinemann]] and in ''[[Open Space]]'' by [[Kagiso Publishers]].		The stage text has been published in a variety of collections, e.g. ''Four Farcical Plays'' (1989) by Saros International, [[African Theatre]]'' by [[Heinemann]] and in ''[[Open Space]]'' by [[Kagiso Publishers]].
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	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==