El Hadji Abdou Kader is a rich and powerful man in the emerging middle class of 1970s Senegal, who got that way through some…creative…business practices.  A member of the showy “Businessman’s Group” who considers the President a close friend, he lives in post-colonial luxury: two wives, two villas, a chauffeur, etc.  El Hadji decides to take a third wife, N’Gone, to the dismay of his first two wives and their children, and throws an ostentatious celebration.  But things go wrong on his (third) wedding night: he has […]