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Publication date 1973 Media type Print Country Senegal Language French | 3.6/5 Goodreads Published in English 1976 Originally published 1973 Adaptations Xala (1975) Published in english 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Xala is a 1973 novel by Ousmane Sembène, 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.
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Xala (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA