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This is the first book (120pg) written by Sengalese communist Sembene Ousmane. He wrote it in 1956 in France, where he was working as a docker in Marseilles and was also actively involved with the CGT and the French Communist Party. This book is written against the strong and disgusting racism that the French directed against the "colonial" immigrants in France at that time (and of course this racism continues to this day), and the economic oppression of these immigrant workers which went hand in hand with it.

This short story (81pg) by Sengalese communist writer Sembene Ousmane is one of the best feminist stories I have read. And don't be concerned that is a bourgeois type story about a bourgeois female "suffering" in that her parents discriminate against her a little, and which ends with the female doing something idiotic, and this is presented as a great solution. NO! This novel, first of all, is about a poor family living in a slum, and deals not only with feminist issues, but also with poverty, unemployment, childbirth out of wedlock (and how these affect relations between men and women), oppression of father on children, and even religious hypocrisy.

Enjoy this excellent story comrades:

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Taaw - Sembene Ousmane.pdf

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. This is shown by the fact that while the officials at the morgue are more than willing to release the body of their son and give them the required paperwork for burial, after that they completely abandon the parents to their own fate. Not only is the cemetery where the body needs to be buried on the outskirts of the opposite side of the city, but no transportation whatsoever is provided to the parents.