The money-order with White genesis (French: Le mandat, précédé de Véhi Ciosane) is a book containing two novellas by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène, first published in French in 1966. An English-language translation was published in 1972.[1] It tells two stories. In White Genesis, a mother struggles with conflict after her teenage daughter's pregnancy becomes apparent. In The Money-order, a man receives a money-order from a relative living in Paris.
The book was adapted by the author into a movie, Mandabi (Wolof: manda bi which comes from the French word mandat, money order), in 1968.
- ^ The Money-Order; with, White Genesis tr. by Clive Wake and John O. Reed. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972. African Writers Series 92.