African Writers' Club
Number of items in collection: 884
Short description:
Recordings in this collection are available for Higher and Further Education institutions only.
The African Writers Club collection comprises over 250 hours of radio programmes recorded in the 1960s at the Transcription Centre, London, under its Director Dennis Duerden. The tapes were distributed for broadcast by radio stations in Africa and elsewhere. The collection also includes material produced by BBC Radio.
Long description:
Recordings in this collection are available for Higher and Further Education institutions only.
The African Writers Club collection comprises over 250 hours of radio programmes recorded in the 1960s at the Transcription Centre, London, under its Director Dennis Duerden. The tapes were distributed for broadcast by radio stations in Africa and elsewhere. The collection also includes material produced by BBC Radio.
The collection includes:
- radio plays
- literary readings, reviews, interviews and talks
- political discussions
- magazine programmes
- music tracks.
Contributors include:
- Wole Soyinka
- Dennis Brutus
- Lenrie Peters
- John Pepper Clark
- Richard Rive
- Raymond Kunene
- Chinua Achebe
- Kofi Awoonor
- Cosmo Pieterse
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Chris McGregor and the Blue Notes
- Dudu Pukwana
- Abdullah Ibrahim.
This material should prove invaluable to students of African Studies, and in particular to students of the rich vein of creative writing in Africa in the middle of the 20th century.
All recordings on this site are governed by licence agreements.