Xala

At the age of 50, El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye decided to take a third wife, another villa and a new car. But on the night of his wedding, he suffers from sala: temporary sexual impotence. In a sense, this is a true story: “The bourgeoisies of today’s Third World, having driven out French, British or American colonialism, have formed new classes that know only how to imitate the Western bourgeoisies… the reign of these new bourgeoisies will inevitably come to an end one day.”