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Altogether, El Hadji has 11 children—six with his first wife, Adja, and five with his second wife, Oumi N’Doye. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “Xala” by Ousmane Sembène. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis ...
In XALA, the contrast between Awe and El Hadji's second wife, Oumi, is seen strikingly during a scene of the third wedding where the two women sit together, outcasts to El Hadji’s new pride and happiness. Wearing a traditional African dress, Awa chews her stick with the dutiful resignation of a patient village woman.
She hectors El Hadji unmercifully about his xala, and the difference in their social rank renders her sudden power over him more comical. Rama exemplifies the modern African woman. She believes in ...
Senegal. Languages. French. Wolof. Xala (pronounced [ˈxala], Wolof for "temporary sexual impotence" [1]) is a 1975 Senegalese satirical comedy film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène, an adaptation of Sembène's 1973 novel of the same name. It stars Thierno Leye, Seune Samb, Douta Seck, Younousse Sèye, Fatim Diagne, and Myriam Niang.
Sembene Ousmane's novel Xala examines the paradoxes which color an African world emerging from a history of French colonial rule. His protagonist, El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye, is a member of the "Businessmen's Group," a coalition of Senegalese businessmen who have come together to "gain control of their country's economy" and "combat the invasion ...
Xala. Xala refers to the curse of impotence that El Hadji, the protagonist, suffers through for most of the novel. His inability to perform sexually renders him unable to consummate his marriage to his third wife, N’Gone, whom he married only for his sexual attraction to her. The curse also brings him trouble with his second wife, Oumi N’Doye.
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This, the Beggar reveals, is why it was he—and not one of El Hadji's wives—that cursed him with the xala. The Beggar then tells El Hadji that, in order to have the curse lifted, he will have to let the people assembled all spit on his naked body. Defeated and crushed, El Hadji then accepts the horde of homeless people spitting in his face ...
