← Mariama BaScarlet Songby Mariama BaNovel exploring forbidden love between a woman and a man from a different social class in West AfricaFind on Amazon↗About the authorMariama BaSenegalese novelist whose slim debut So Long a Letter became one of the most important feminist novels in African literature, examining polygamy, female friendship, and societal change in Dakar through epistolary form.More by Mariama BaSo Long a LetterEpistolary novel depicting a Senegalese woman's reflections on polygamy and marriage through letters to a friend→