Adult books from Senegal
Recommended adult books (1)
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If you are into adult here are some adult books from Senegal for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
1.
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène EN
Description:
"God's Bits of Wood is a fictionalized account of the Dakar-Niger train strikes which took in the 1940s. The novel looks at both the political and personal sacrifices the strikers and their families made. The political power is portrayed here as the strikers try to win back pensions, annual paid vacations, and family allowances from the Europeans. The novel can be seen as a shift of power between the African strikers and their European bosses. The Europeans have the political process and violence as a leverage of power, which they use both insistently and mindlessly. One of the European delega... continue