God's Bits of Wood

God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène. It is a fictional treatment based on an historic railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s. It was written and published 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.

Quotes
(Chapter 3, Page 27)
 * God forgive me, I had forgotten Maimouna
 * Today, I will bring back something to eat.”


 * (Chapter 3, Page 34)


 * I told you yesterday, Rama, that I couldn’t do anything more for you, or for any of the striker’s families.”


 * (Chapter 4, Page 42)


 * Striking brutally through the cloud curtain, like the beam from some celestial projector, a single ray of light lashed at the Koulouba, the governor's residence, poised like a sugar castle on the heights that bore its name


 * (Page 1)


 * The faces seemed to have lost all trace of personality. As if some giant eraser had rubbed out their individual traits they had taken on a common mask, the anonymous mask of a crowd."
 * (Page. 7)

External link

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