God’s Bits of Wood

Author(s): Ousmane Sembene

Location(s): Senegal

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1940s

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In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. 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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The book utterly transports the reader to the middle of the compounds, the railway yards, the riots and brings the era and place to multicolour life – Lerra –

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God’s Bits of Wood Sembene Ousmane wrote in French and English and this is his third novel, which was originally written and published in French as ‘Les bouts de bois de Dieu’. I originally picked this book, which I...