God's Bits of Wood
Sembene Ousmane, film director and writer, was born in Senegal  and worked as a fisherman before attending  l'Ecole de Ceramique at Marsassoum. He then worked as a plumber, a bricklayer and an apprentice mechanic in Dakar.  After the war he became a docker and trade union leader in Marseilles, and out of this experience he wroteLe Docker Noir(1956). He had also publishedOh Pays, mon Beau Peuple(1957),L'Harmattan(1964) and the collection of stories,Voltaique(1962), which was translated asGod's Bits of Woodand appears in the African Writers Series (AWS). He has made several films including one ofLe Mandat(translated as The Money Order with White Genesis AWS). His film ofXalamet with a great success in the New York film festival.