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Xala (novel)
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Wikipedia article
'Xala' is a 1973 novel by Ousmane Sembne, that was later translated and published in English in 1976 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. It is about El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye, a businessman who is struck by impotence on the night of his wedding to his third wife.
It was adapted into a movie, also called 'Xala' (1975) and directed by Sembene.
References
[http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/xala.html Xala] at www.wmich.edu
Category:1973 novels
Category:Novels by Ousmane Sembne
Category:Novels set in Africa
Category:Senegalese novels adapted into films
Category:African Writers Series
Category:French-language novels
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