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Xala = The curse

A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.

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  • "Belletristik : Senegal ; Polygamie."
  • "Een welgestelde Senegalees verdenkt een van zijn vrouwen ervan hem door middel van magie impotent gemaakt te hebben."
  • ""Ousmane's satirical fable tells of the downfall of El Hadji, a member of the African elite who have taken the place of white businessmen in Francophone Africa. The protagonist is stricken with xala--impotence--in a racous bedrroom scene with his new young wife. The novel subtly traces the interplay among his three wives as El Hadji desperately tries to over come the affliction. In his obsession he resorts to primitive incantation, and his unscrupulous business associates cynically reject their former friend." -- cover."
  • "El Hadj Abdoukader Beye is a rich self-made businessman who celebrates his affluence by taking a third wife, who is younger than his daughter. His problems begin on his wedding night when he is stricken by a xala, a curse which renders him impotent. Abdoukader's attempts to solve his problem allow the writer-director Sembene Ousmane to draw a vivid, satirical image of life in post-independence Senegal, underlining the gap between rich and poor and the inextricable mix of modernity and tradition."
  • "A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa."@en
  • ""Ousmane's satirical fable tells of the downfall of El Hadji, a member of the African elite who have taken the place of white businessmen in Francophone Africa. The protagonist is stricken with xala--impotence--in a racous bedrroom scene with his new young wife. The novel subtly traces the interplay among his three wives as El Hadji desperately tries to over come the affliction. In his obsession he resorts to primitive incantation, and his unscrupulous business associates cynically reject their former friend."--Cover."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Translations"
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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Xala; roman"
  • "El maleficio"@es
  • "El maleficio"
  • "Xala ; roman"
  • "Xala (African writers series)"
  • "Xala [engl.]"
  • "Xala : Roman Ousmane Sembène"
  • "Chala : Roman"
  • "Xala : roman uit Senegal"
  • "Xala roman"
  • "Xala = The curse"@en
  • "Xala : die Rache des Bettlers"
  • "Xala"@pl
  • "Xala"
  • "Xala"@en
  • "Xala : roman"
  • "Xala a Novel"@en
  • "Xala : Roman"
  • "Xala = Curse"

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