Library weekly: Mariama Bâ

On 17 April 1929, the Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ was born. Bâ was born in Dakar, into an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family of Lebu ethnicity and was raised a Muslim. Her two novels, So Long a Letter (1979) and Scarlet Song (1981), were written in French and translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also known for her article "La fonction politique des littératures Africaines écrites" (The Political Function of African Written Literature), published in 1981. Mariama Bâ  is featured in our Library Weekly.