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Senkatana is a tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative. The play is regarded as a classic of Sesotho literature.
Seen as one of the greatest essayists and dramatists writing in Southern Sotho, Senkatana was Mofokeng’s first book, published in 1952 in the African (then Bantu) Treasury Series, an imprint of Witwatersrand University Press.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Wits University Press
Imprint: Wits University Press
Publication Date:
01 October 2021
ISBN: 9781776145454
Format: eBook
BISACs:
DRAMA / African
Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng (1923–1957), a dramatist and prose writer, received a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for his research on African folklore, and his knowledge of Sesotho culture was the source of his dramatic reworking of the Senkatana legend.