170 pages
French language
Published 2001
La grève des bàttu ou Les déchets humains
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La Grève des bàttu (transl. The Beggars' Strike) is the second novel by Aminata Sow Fall, published in Dakar, Senegal, in 1979 by Nouvelles Éditions Africaines. In 1980, the book won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire. An English-language translation by Dorothy Blair was published under the title The Beggars' Strike in 1981 by Longman. La Grève des bàttu was republished in France in 2001 by Le Serpent à plumes.