![]() Bâ's grandparents did not plan to educate her beyond primary school. During the colonial revolution period and later, girls faced numerous obstacles when they wanted to have a higher education. īâ was a prominent law student at school. She received her early education in French, while at the same time attending Koranic school. After her mother's death, Bâ was largely raised in the traditional manner by her maternal grandparents. He was the Minister of Health in 1956 while her grandfather was an interpreter in the French occupation regime. Her father was a career civil servant who became one of the first ministers of state. ![]() ![]() This short book was awarded the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980.īâ was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1929, into an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family of Lebu ethnicity. ![]() In this semi-autobiographical epistolary work, Bâ depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. ![]() Her frustration with the fate of African women is expressed in her first novel, Une si longue lettre (1979 translated into English as So Long a Letter). Mariama Bâ (Ap– August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. ![]()
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