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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rizwana Latha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2004-04-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/820