is a South African musical by Mbongeni Ngema and Hugh Masekela depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid.
It was also adapted into a 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Leleti Khumalo.
premiered on Broadway on 28 January 1988, at the Cort Theatre, and closed on 2 July 1989, after 597 performances and 11 previews.
The play was first presented at The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 1987.
Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of the second act.