خالا

As French rule ends in Senegal, El Hadji Abdoukader Beye, a businessman on the Chamber of Commerce, takes a third wife but finds on the wedding night that he is impotent, and blames a curse called xala. He goes from one healer to another while his business collapses, his corruption comes to light and he is voted off the board. At last a blind beggar whom he once had removed from the street says that he laid the curse and will lift it only on a humiliating condition. Sembène adapted his own novel, and according to the Harvard Film Archive, when the Senegalese government cut twelve scenes he answered by distributing flyers that identified them.