Mariama Bâ

Mariama Bâ was born on 17 April 1929 in Dakar, into a Muslim Lebou family. Orphaned of her mother as a child, she was raised by her maternal grandparents in the traditional way, and her father insisted that she continue her studies. Admitted at fourteen to the teacher-training school in Rufisque, she graduated in 1947, taught for twelve years, then moved to the regional inspectorate. Married to the deputy Obèye Diop and the mother of nine children, she divorced. Active in women's associations, she died in Dakar on 17 August 1981, at the age of fifty-two.

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• NovelSo Long a LetterUne si longue lettreMariama Bâ · 1979Literature