Senegal

Books in this genre are set in or about Senegal.

So Long a Letter
At Night All Blood is Black
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
God's Bits of Wood
Xala
Ambiguous Adventure
The Beggars' Strike
Three Strong Women
Scarlet Song
Beyond the Door of No Return
Le Ventre de l'Atlantique
Le Baobab Fou
Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks (African Humanities and the Arts)
The Message
Brotherhood
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane SembèneSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâXala by Ousmane SembèneThe Abandoned Baobab by Ken BugulThe Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall
Senegalese Reading List
25 books — 4 voters
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters



Nelson Mandela
The gracefulness of the slender fishing boats that glided into the harbor in Dakar was equaled only by the elegance of the Senegalese women who sailed through the city in flowing robes and turbaned heads. I wandered through the nearby marketplace, intoxicated by the exotic spices and perfumes. The Senegalese are a handsome people and I enjoyed the brief time that Oliver and I spent in their country. The society showed how disparate elements-- French, Islamic, and African-- can mingle to create a ...more
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Jean-Paul Sartre
This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed feelings and the customs Of Europe, feel this suffering And this despair—equal to no other— Of ever taming with words from France This heart which came to me from Sénegal. - Haitian poet
Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus

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