La Mort de Chaka

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La Mort de Chaka is a play in five tableaux by Seydou Badian (aka Seydou Badian Kouyaté, 1928-2018) of Mali.


The original text

Originally written in French, La Mort de Chaka was first published by Presence Africaine, Paris, in 1961. A second edition appeared in 1962.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as The Death of Chaka by Clive Wake and the text published by Oxford University Press, Nairobi in 1968 (second edition 1969).

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seydou_Badian_Kouyat%C3%A9

https://www.worldcat.org/formats-editions/467156486

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Chaka-New-Drama-Africa/dp/0196440653

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1041794

Copy of a catalogue (handwritten by various hands) of the F.C.L. Bosman collection held at the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum (NALN) in Bloemfontein.

https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/rug01:002168930


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