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God's Bits of Wood

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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 Ousmane Sembène envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.

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God's Bits of Wood, Ousmane Sembène

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2024
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Language
English
Released
2024
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Paperback
Pages
333
ISBN10
103590084X
ISBN13
9781035900848
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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 Ousmane Sembène envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.