The Money-Order with White Genesis

In White Genesis, a mother struggles with conflict after her teenage daughter's pregnancy becomes apparent.

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.

Nevertheless, one of the brothers of Khar Madaiagua Diob (the expectant mother) tramples the laborer's crops.

The Money-Order centers on an illiterate, middle-aged Senegalese man named Dieng.

He doesn't have proper identification, and he even must pay a translator to read him the message with the order.