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