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God's Bits of Wood

Ousmane Sembène

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1960
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 360

Railway workers across French colonial West Africa strike for wages equal to their white bosses', and as the company starves the towns along the line to break them, the women march where the men cannot until the empire is forced to give in.

At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened.
God's Bits of Wood, Ousmane Sembène

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