
Mariama Bâ
So Long a Letter
Foundational Senegalese feminist novel
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So Long a Letter is Mariama Bâ's celebrated debut novel — winner of the inaugural Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (1980). Written as a long letter from Senegalese widow Ramatoulaye to her best friend Aissatou, the novel reflects on the women's marriages: how Aissatou divorced her husband when he took a second wife, while Ramatoulaye chose to stay and endure. Through these parallel stories, Bâ examines polygamy, women's solidarity, and the contradictions facing Senegalese women between tradition and modernity. Required reading on African literature syllabi.

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