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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.
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.
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 ...
Modu took El Hadji to his boss’s import-export shop, which specialized in the sale of grain. In the days that followed, El Hadji went to various shamans and consumed numerous aphrodisiacs to restore his lost erection. During a visit to a seer, El Hadji learned that the xala had been caused by someone close to him. This led him to suspect both ...
The beggar, the real author of El Hadji’s xala, declares that he can restore his potency. At the mercy of the beggar, El Hadji submits to the scourge of humiliation inflicted on him by the ...
When the novel’s protagonist, the businessman El Hadji, becomes desperate about his impotence (the meaning of xala), he visits a famous seer to seek treatment, and another side of Dakar comes ...
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In XALA we feel empathy for both El Hadji and the beggars. Sembene warns the emerging bourgeoisie not to lose sight of its own trauma and inevitable fall from power. At the same time, the filmmaker clearly shows a difference between human nature and the corrupting influence of imposed systems and cultures on Africa.
