Learning from the Curse

"This book is about a story, Ousmane Sembene's Xala, about a time, the aftermath of Senegalese Independence, and about a place, Dakar, the capital of Senegal. It's also about the collaboration between an artist and an anthropologist, who have reacted in their different mediums to the story,time and place, and to what the other made of them." -- From the first chapter.