God’s Bits of Wood

12.95

‘Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its turn, its rhythm and its place. No one was very sure any longer where the song began, or if it had an ending. It rolled out over its own length, like the movement of a serpent. It was as long as a life.’

In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway came out on strike. Sembene Ousmane, in this vivid and moving novel, evinces all of the colour, passion and tragedy of those decisive years in the history of West Africa. Throughout this novel, written from the workers’ perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens.

The author’s other novels include “Xala” and “Black Docker”.

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OUSMANE, SEMBENE

ISBN: 9780435909598