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God’s Bits of Wood

work by Sembène

Also known as: “Les Bouts de bois de Dieu”

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African literature

In African literature: French
…de bois de Dieu (1960; God’s Bits of Wood), his greatest novel, describes the last gasp of colonialism through the story of a railroad strike. In it Bakayoko is the spokesman for a future that will combine African humanism and European technology. The characters Fa Keïta, Penda, and Ramatoulaye are…
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discussed in biography

In Ousmane Sembène
…de bois de Dieu (1960; God’s Bits of Wood), which depicts an African workers’ railroad strike and the attempts to combat colonialism, a volume of short stories titled Voltaïque (1962; Tribal Scars and Other Stories), L’Harmattan (1964; “The Wind”), and Xala (1973), which also provided the subject of one of…
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