Xala by James S. Williams Groundswell Speaker 2024 PuffinISBN: 9780241647523Extent: 288 pages

PuffinISBN: 9780241647523Extent: 288 pages

But even a master's brush can slip

The New York Years is an intimate self-portrait of a young artist

' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar

Peter talks to entrepreneurs

Xala by James S. Williams Groundswell Speaker 2024 PuffinISBN: 9780241647523Extent: 288 pagesXala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembenes status as a wholly new kind of politically engaged, pan African, auteur film maker. Centring on the story of businessman El Hadji and the impotence that afflicts him on his marriage to a young third wife, Xala vividly captures the cultural and political upheaval of 1970s