Ken Bugul

Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma was born in 1947 in the Ndoucoumane region. A pupil at the Malick Sy lycée in Thiès, she spent a year at the University of Dakar and obtained a scholarship to go to Belgium. From 1986 to 1993 she worked for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, in Nairobi, Brazzaville and Lomé; she later opened an art gallery in Porto-Novo. She signs with a Wolof name meaning the one nobody wants, and received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for a novel of 1999.

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• NovelThe Abandoned BaobabLe Baobab fouKen Bugul · 1982Literature