Mariama Ba’s So long a letter and the educational empowerment of Muslim women
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 issue in the novella wo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2004-04-01
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Series: | Acta Academica |
Online Access: | http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/820 |