num_pages: 99
description: The sight of disease-ridden beggars in the streets is giving the town a bad name, and the tourists are starting to stay away. If the Director of Public Health and Hygiene can get rid of them he will have done a great service to the health and economy of the nation - not to mention his own promotion prospects. A plan of military precision is put into action to rid the streets of these verminous scroungers.But the beggars are organized, too.They know that giving alms is a divine obligation and that Allah's good will is vital to worldly promotion. So when the beggars withdraw their charitable service, the pious city civil servants and businessmen start to panic. 
language: English
title: The Beggars' Strike
titlecomplete: The Beggars' Strike
genres: Fiction, France, African Literature, Historical Fiction, Western Africa, Literature, Novels, Senegal, 20th Century, Africa
ratings_count: 506
places: Senegal
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire de l'ADELF
publisher: Longman