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God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that concerns a railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s. It was written in French under the title Les bouts de bois de Dieu. The book deals with several ways that the Senegalese and Malians responded to colonialism. The book casts a critical regard towards accommodation, collaboration, and overall idealization of the French colonials. At the same time the story details the strikers who work against the mistreatment of the Senegalese people. The novel was translated into English in 1962 and published by William Heinemann as God's Bits of Wood as part of their influential African Writers Series.

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  • God's Bits of Wood (en)
  • Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (fr)
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  • God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that concerns a railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s. It was written in French under the title Les bouts de bois de Dieu. The book deals with several ways that the Senegalese and Malians responded to colonialism. The book casts a critical regard towards accommodation, collaboration, and overall idealization of the French colonials. At the same time the story details the strikers who work against the mistreatment of the Senegalese people. The novel was translated into English in 1962 and published by William Heinemann as God's Bits of Wood as part of their influential African Writers Series. (en)
  • Les Bouts de bois de Dieu est un roman de l'écrivain sénégalais Ousmane Sembène paru en 1960. Ce roman est dédié aux syndicalistes d'Afrique noire et décrit la grève que menèrent en 1947 les cheminots africains de la ligne Dakar-Niger au temps de la colonisation française. Il est . (fr)
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  • God's Bits of Wood (en)
  • Les bouts de bois de Dieu (en)
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  • Le Livre Contemporain
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  • Fraser Taylor (en)
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  • Les bouts de bois de Dieu (en)
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  • Francis Price (en)
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  • God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that concerns a railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s. It was written in French under the title Les bouts de bois de Dieu. The book deals with several ways that the Senegalese and Malians responded to colonialism. The book casts a critical regard towards accommodation, collaboration, and overall idealization of the French colonials. At the same time the story details the strikers who work against the mistreatment of the Senegalese people. The novel was translated into English in 1962 and published by William Heinemann as God's Bits of Wood as part of their influential African Writers Series. (en)
  • Les Bouts de bois de Dieu est un roman de l'écrivain sénégalais Ousmane Sembène paru en 1960. Ce roman est dédié aux syndicalistes d'Afrique noire et décrit la grève que menèrent en 1947 les cheminots africains de la ligne Dakar-Niger au temps de la colonisation française. Il est . (fr)
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