African Poetics Digital Portal · Folder 1. 'The Hungry Earth' (1979), fols. 6, 17, 23, 27-28: various songs sung by characters on stage. The programme for the British Tour in May-August 1981 contains the English texts of all the songs. The programme for 'Umongikazi' contains English translations of the songs in the play. The poem 'Elethu' (written 1979) in original African language is folded in the back of a typescript draft for 'Dirty Work'; the poem is heard from offstage at the beginning of the 'First Encounter' in 'Gangsters'.

Folder 1. 'The Hungry Earth' (1979), fols. 6, 17, 23, 27-28: various songs sung by characters on stage. The programme for the British Tour in May-August 1981 contains the English texts of all the songs. The programme for 'Umongikazi' contains English translations of the songs in the play. The poem 'Elethu' (written 1979) in original African language is folded in the back of a typescript draft for 'Dirty Work'; the poem is heard from offstage at the beginning of the 'First Encounter' in 'Gangsters'.

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Title: Folder 1. 'The Hungry Earth' (1979), fols. 6, 17, 23, 27-28: various songs sung by characters on stage. The programme for the British Tour in May-August 1981 contains the English texts of all the songs. The programme for 'Umongikazi' contains English translations of the songs in the play. The poem 'Elethu' (written 1979) in original African language is folded in the back of a typescript draft for 'Dirty Work'; the poem is heard from offstage at the beginning of the 'First Encounter' in 'Gangsters'.
Institution: University of Oxford
Collection Title: Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Creator(s): Maishe Maponya
Collector(s): AMM Archives Committee
Description/Scope and Content: The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) archive contains material from its the beginnings of the Movement in the late 1950s as the Boycott Committee to a few years after is dissolution in 1994 and the creation of its successor organisation, Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA). The collection includes poems and scripts by Maishe Maponya with press cuttings and leaflets concerning the Bahumutsi Theatre Company and drawings by George Msimango, 1970s-1990s.
Date: 1979-1981
Location: Bodleian Library
Identifier: MSS. AAM 1483
Language: English and various unidentified African languages
Extent: 1 folder (of two folders listed as one item)
Collection Type: archival collection
Level of Processing: Fully Processed
Type of Materials/Format: paper-manuscripts
Provenance: Donated by the AAM Archives Committee in accordance with a decision by the AAM Executive Committee.
Link: https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/17208
Usage: Medium (Occasional exhibit or research/educational use)

Item sets: Oxford