Women in African Literature: Writing and Representation
Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale.
How Did a Poem by an Influential Senegalese Feminist Author Go Missing?
Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ is known for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.
Feminize Your Canon: Mariama Bâ by Emma Garman
As a Muslim schoolgirl in Senegal in the forties, Mariama Bâ had to choose her life's direction at the age of fourteen.
COLUMN: IN PRAISE OF MARIMA BA
My copy of So Long a Letter is dated September 1986. That year, I was feeding my imagination on what we then quaintly referred to.
Senegalese Author Mariama Bâ’s Only Poem Resurfaces After 46 Years
Senegalese author Mariama Bâ's only poem “Memories of Lagos” has resurfaced...
7 Books By and About Muslim Women
Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that celebrate the multi-faceted identities of Muslim women.
So Long A Letter
North American Premiere Ramatoulaye, headmistress of a primary school in Dakar and the mother of seven children, has been married to Modou...
Overlooked No More: Mariama Bâ, Voice of African Feminism (Published 2024)
She became a literary star in Senegal with novels that addressed women's issues as the country, newly free from French colonial rule,...
Tamba: Lunch is not prepared, he kills his wife with an axe
S. Kâ, in his forties, killed his wife, Mariama Bâ, on Sunday in Sinthiou Boye, a commune of Kahène, in Koumpentoum (Tamba). According to L'Observateur,...
Sisters under the skin: Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Bâ
Both were sisters under the skin, who unflinchingly tackled the challenges of motherhood and marriage across post-independence Africa and its...
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Senegalese novelist and feminist (1929–1981); author of The Restless Earth (So Long a Letter) and a foundational figure in Senegalese and francophone feminist thought and literature.