Comprador Class
Niiwam by Sembene Ousmane
RevSocialist اش... — Thu, 08/19/2010 - 12:11
This short story (30pgs) by Sengalese radical Sembene Ousmane is about the struggles that a rural man and wife go through in the capital, while trying to bury their dead son. In this brief story of a suffering, confused poor man, Ousmane shows many of the reasons why this story could take place at all, i.e. some of the main characteristics of a neo-colonial society. First of all, there is the complete abandonment by the state of any concern over the welfare of it's citizens.
Xala by Ousmane Sembene
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 07/24/2010 - 15:03
This short novel (104pg) by Sengalese communist writer Ousmane Sembene, is really more of a satire and parable then a normal novel, and if you don't look at it as a satire and parable (i.e. as it was intended to be perceived), then it really won't make much sense.
