Essays on So Long a Letter

To understand how the character Ramatoulaye and how she see’s colonialism in all its forms and how it is depicted, her background, her location, what is happening with in the colony itself and all the different forms of colonialism and different layers of colonialism depicted...

A discussion of So long a letter by the West African woman writer, Mariama Ba, is used as a basis for highlighting the empowering and disempowering effects of particular types of education for women in the traditional African-Muslim context of Senegal. An examination of this...

In our interactive oral, we discussed the cultural and contextual considerations of Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter. Through our discussion, we explored the impact of westernisation on Islamic women in post-colonial Senegal and the role of women in a polygamous Senegalese society. Mariama Ba...

Considered to be one of those novels which add a feminine voice to the highly masculine accounts on Africa’s pre and post-independent era, Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter intimately discusses the conditions of women in Senegal. In a letter to her best friend Aissatou,...

C.S. Lewis said “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” Setting in literature refers to the where...

In her feminist Novel So long A letter, Mariama Ba uses the protagonist of Ramatoulaye and her close friend Aissatou, in order to convey her messages of the criticism of culture and religion and subsequently the implications it has on the society and women in...