Ousmane SembÃ¨ne,Francis Price
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 SembÃ¨ne envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.
Cultural,Africa,Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Western Africa,Senegal,Literature,African Literature,Literature,Cultural,France,Politics,Novels,Historical
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