Publisher's Synopsis
This volume presents a representative selection from the work of South African dramatist, Matsemela Manaka. Included here are "Egoli", "Pula", "Children of Asazi", "Toro", and "Goree". Each play has been edited with the particular needs of readers outside South Africa in mind: unfamiliar references have been annotated and African-language passages in the texts provided with English translations.;To facilitate a comprehensive view of Manaka's work, a number of his essays on the practice of "theatre for social reconstruction" have been reprinted, as have recent interviews. The introduction includes biographical information and traces the development of Manaka's work up to the 1990s.
