La Mort de Chaka

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La Mort de Chaka is a play in five tableaux by Seydou Badian (1928-2018)[1] 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 B. Wake (also given as Clive Wake[2]) 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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