Ousmane SembÃ¨ne,Catherine Glenn-Lauga
Sembene Ousmane has been a fisherman, docker, union organizer, and filmmaker and is Senegal's foremost novelist with a worthy worldwide reputation. Two novellas from this well-known Senegalese writer. InNiiwam, an agonized father carries the corpse of his son on a bus from one side of Dakar to the other -- a meeting of the dead and the living, and of the traditional with the contemporary and urban. Taaw concerns a poverty-stricken family in the throes of a revolt against a tyrannical father. Translated by a team from the University of Cape Town.
Western Africa,Senegal,Cultural,Africa,Fiction
Niiwam and Taaw (African Writers Series)