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First published as Les bouts de bois de Dieu in 1960 by Le Livre contemporain This translation © Francis Price, 1962 by Doubleday & Company Inc.
Published in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1970 by Heinemann Educational Publishers
This edition published in 2024 by Black Star Books and Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Copyright © Sembène Ousmane, 1960
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ISBN (PB): 9781035900848
ISBN (E): 9781837930470
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