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Bertha Egnos, the composer of South Africa’s hit musical from the 1970s, “Ipi Tombi,” died in Johannesburg on July 2. She was 90. Egnos wrote the songs she became best known for, “Mama Thembu’s ...

I forget now which happened first, the wildly successful countrywide tour of Nigeria of the famous South African musical, “Ipi Tombi” or my staging of the South African play, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, by ...