Trade Unionism And The Mobilization Of The African Labor; Changing Role And Perspectives Of African Women

NameProfessorCourseDate “God’s Bits of the Wood”Trade Unionism and the mobilization of the African labor; Changing role and perspectives of African women“God’s Bits of the Wood” is a novel by Sembene Ousmane that was published in1960. The author discusses the event of the strike in the late 1940s when the railroad workers in Senegal refused to work to fight discrimination by their employers. Their aim was to bring to an end the system that only benefited the corporations while the works remained oppressed. In the novel, the author presents the manner in which the strike affected union members, workers, their families and the French supervisors. The author employs a large cast of characters that involve the public and a few other individuals with sophisticated moral values but play an important role in the plot. Bakayoko is the main character in the story. He is a leader who is pragmatic, reserves and portrays arrogance. Other includes Penda, Maimouna, Tiemoko, Deune, Deejean, and Fa Keita. The main clash occurs between two major characters, Dejean (the French supervisor) and Bakayoko key organizer of the strike. As the story begins, the characters that plan for the strike are introduced, and soon everybody decided