God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that chronicles the historic 1947–48 railway workers' strike on the Dakar-Niger line in French West Africa.

The novel is a powerful fictionalized account of the workers' struggle for dignity, better working conditions, and equality, highlighting themes of collective resistance, the anti-colonial movement, and the emerging role of women in African society.