Kongi's Harvest

For the film adaptation, see Kongi's Harvest (film).
Kongi's Harvest
Written byWole Soyinka
Date premiered1965
Place premieredNegro Arts Festival (Dakar)

Kongi's Harvest is a 1965 play written by Wole Soyinka. It premiered in Dakar, Senegal, at the first Negro Arts Festival in April 1966.[1] It was later adapted as a film of the same name, directed by the American Ossie Davis.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

The play was published in 1967 in London and New York by Oxford University Press (Three Crowns Books; 96 pp).

  1. ^ Berry, Poyd M. (1980). Kongi's Harvest (a review). Gibbs, James (ed.). In Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Lynne Rienner Publishers, ISBN 978-0-914478-50-8.
  2. ^ Gugler, Josef (1997). "Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest from stage to screen: Four endings to tyranny", Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1997.
  3. ^ Gugler, Josef (1999). "African Writing Projected onto the Screen: Sambizanga, Xala, and Kongi's Harvest", African Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, April 1999.
  4. ^ Davis, Ossie (September 20, 1970). Movies: When Is a Camera a Weapon? The Camera As Weapon. New York Times.
  5. ^ Rosenblum, Mort (April 4, 1970). "Black Africa's First Full-Sized Movie", Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^ Bolwell, Edwin (July 15, 1967). "Tarzan's Africa may be up a tree; U.S.-Nigerian Film Company Would Change Image", New York Times.
  7. ^ Bunce, Alan (September 1, 1970). "'There is a constant thread in all I've done'", The Christian Science Monitor.