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The Money-Order: with White Genesis (African Writers Series)

Sembène, Ousmane

Heinemann Educational Books

Two novellas by a Senegalese writer, one concerning an agonized father who carries his dead son from one side of Dakar to the other, and the second story relating the tale of a poverty-stricken family in the throes of a revolt against their tyrannical father.

Niiwam and Taaw: And, Taaw (African Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Heinemann

These two novelettes look at the state of modern Africa. Dieng experiences bureaucratic incompetence and deceit in "The Money Order" which leads him to a public act of despair, while in "White Genesis", the decline of a way of life is examined through a tragic tale of incest.

The Money-Order with White Genesis: Two Novellas (Heinemann African Writers Series)

Set in the 1950s, this book tells of Diaw Falla, a docker for whom work exists merely to finance his true obsession - his writing. As his novel nears completion, he meets Ginette Tontisanne whose good connections ensure he is published - but, to his dismay, under her name.

Black docker (African writers series)

Le Docker Noir

Ousmane, Sembène

French & European Pubns

Le Mandat

Tribal scars, and other stories

Inscape

Looks at how the new African middle class have taken over from the colonialists as the exploiters of the people.

Xala

Short Stories & Anthologies

Lawrence Hill

Man Is Culture (Hans Wolff Memorial Lecture)

Indiana Univ.

God's bits of wood (ZPH writers series)

Zimbabwe Pub. House

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