Mariama Bâ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French.
Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim.
At an early age she came to criticize what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions.
Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle even to gain an education, because they did not believe that girls should be taught.
Bâ later married a Senegalese member of Parliament, Obèye Diop-Tall, but divorced him and was left to care for their nine children. Her frustration with the fate of African women—as well as her ultimate acceptance of it—is expressed in her first novel, Une si longue lettre (1979; translated as So Long a Letter).
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.
Literary scholar Abiola Irele called it "the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction".
This short book was awarded the first Noma Prize for Publishing in Africa in 1980. Bâ died a year later after a protracted illness, before the publication of her second novel, Un Chant écarlate (Scarlet Song), which is a love story between two star-crossed lovers from different ethical backgrounds fighting the tyranny of tradition.

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