Xala (novel) explained

Xala
Author:	Ousmane Sembène
Country:	Senegal
Language:	French
Publisher:	Présence Africaine
Pub Date:	1973
English Pub Date:	1976
Media Type:	Print

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.^{[1] [2]}

It was adapted into a movie, also called Xala (1975) and directed by Sembene.

External links

• Xala at www.wmich.edu

Notes and References

1. La femme et le mariage: Du mot à l'image—Xala d'Ousmane Sembene . 10.17159/tl.v57i2.7967 . 2020 . Vrancken . Maria . Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . 57 . 2 . 92–100 . free .
2. Ousmane Sembène's "Xala:" the Novel, the Film, and Their Audiences . 3820727 . Gugler . Josef . Diop . Oumar Cherif . Research in African Literatures . 1998 . 29 . 2 . 147–158 .