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Xala (1975) - (Movie Clip) And Straddle A Pestle?

The first two wives (Seune Samb, Younouss Seye) of the hero (Thierno Leye) chat during the preliminaries before he marries a third (Myriam Niang), her mother pushing a tribal potency practice, in Senegalese novelist and film-maker Ousmane Sembene's award-winning political comedy Xala, 1975.

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