The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, and the first published East African play in English.[1] The travelling theatre of Makerere College was the first to produce the play,[2] putting it on in honour of Ugandan independence at the Ugandan National Theatre in Kampala in November 1962.[3][4][5] The play was published in a small edition by Makerere University Press in 1963, and republished in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1968.[3]
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