A Socio - Analytical Study of Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggars’ Strike

Mour Ndiaye, the Director of the Department of Public Health and Hygiene, has to clean the streets of beggars to give room for economic buoyancy through tourism, in Dakar, the capital on the directive of the President. The presence of these beggars in streets constitutes hindrance to economic growth. But for the progress, peace and long life of members of the society, beggars are indispensable. For Mour Ndiaye to be promoted to the post of Vice-President of the capital, beggars are so indispensable across the streets. Beggars refused to go back to streets from the slum being barred to after suffering humiliations and brutalization from the government agencies. This paper x-rays issues in cultural contact and its effects the on day to day administration by government policies, the African superstition and the hypocrisy in the society. Textual analysis method is used to critically explore reasons for almsgiving, the sincerity and the disingenuousness in this act. The foreign perception of the physically challenged ones in the society should not be imitated entirely in the African context as every situation is culturally catered for. The study concludes that African problems are better solved with African values and traditions.