Ousmane Sembène

A fictional treatment of the 1947-48 railroad strike in colonial Senegal, depicting the struggle of African railway workers against French colonial authorities.

El Hadji Abdou Kader Bèye, a Senegalese businessman who takes a third wife, discovers he has been struck with xala — impotence. A satirical allegory of the African bourgeoisie's complicity with neo-colonialism.