Oh My Country, My Beautiful People

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Back from war and years in France, Oumar Faye returns to Casamance in Senegal with medals on his chest and a white wife at his side. He dreams of building a farm, a home wrested from colonial control and from the weight of tradition itself. But the land he loves is restless. French officials still rule, local power-brokers circle, and even his own family struggles to accept the life he has chosen. Between love and loyalty, hope and defiance, Oumar must decide what freedom truly means. In this fierce and tender early novel, Sembene writes with clarity and fire about dignity, resistance, and the cost of belonging.

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ISBN

9781915527028

Dimensions

5.06" x 7.81"

Format

Imprint

Language

Number of Pages

219

Publisher

Books2Africa Press

Year of Publication

2026

Ousmane Sembene is now best known as a great film director, sometimes described as ’The Father of African Cinema’, but before his first films he had been acclaimed for his novels. His second novel following Le Docker Noir (Black Docker), was first published as Ô Pays, Mon Beau Peuple! by Amiot-Dumont in Paris in 1957, three years before Senegal’s independence. Never previously translated into English, Ô Pays, like Le Docker Noir, was written while Sembene was living in France and remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. The novel arose from Sembene’s own experiences of pre-independence French West Africa, of the war in Europe, as a French trade union activist, and of the contemporary struggle for African independence from France. The work is a passionate cry for the people of his home country to recognise the reality of the colonial situation and to act to liberate their country in the face of apathy and a sense of powerlessness, religious conservatism, and colonial brutality. Sembene soon concluded that writing in French – or indeed any language – was not the best way of reaching his desired audience. So he turned enthusiastically to cinema where his impact has been immense.

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