num_pages: 245
description: In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, Sembene Ousmane envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.
language: English
title: God's Bits of Wood
titlecomplete: God's Bits of Wood
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Politics, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Senegal, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 2760
places: Senegal
publisher: Heinemann Educational Books