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Literary Encyclopedia: Ba, Mariama
An accomplished teacher, feminist and novelist, Mariama Bâ's presence on the literary scene was tragically short-lived - from 1979 to 1981. Bâ was born in Dakar Sénégal in 1929 to an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family. Her father was a career civil servant who became Sénégalese Minister of Health in 1956 while her grandfather was an interpreter in the French occupation regime. Bâ was raised largely by her maternal grandparents following the untimely death of her mother. She attended Ecole Normal, a school for girls based in Rufisque (a suburb of Dakar) and it was this institution that prepared her for her later career as a school teacher. Originally enrolled on a secretarial course, Bâ's intellect and capacity were spotted early on by the school's principal who began to prepare her for the 1943 entrance examination to a teaching career. Bâ sat for the exam and obtained the highest scores of all candidates in the French occupied states of West Africa. She obtained her teaching diploma in 1947 and then embarked on a teaching career which ended in 1959. Thereafter, she transferred to the Regional Inspectorate of Teaching as an educational inspector. [eng] |
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Ba Mariama
Mariama Bâ was born in 1929 in Senegal. She was brought up by her grandparents in a traditional Moslem environment. Her father was Minister for Health at the time of the blueprint law. She obtained her teaching diploma in 1947, taught for twelve years then, for health reasons, asked to take up an appointment at the Senegalese Regional Inspectorate of Teaching. A divorced mother of nine children, she was married to the Member of Parliament, Obèye Diop. In 1980 she obtained the Noma Prize for her first novel. She died the following year, just before the publication of her second. [eng] |
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Mariama Ba
Senegalese teacher and writer, whose epistolary novel Une si longue lettre (1980, So Long a Letter) is considered the classical statement of the female condition in Africa. The book won the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa at the 1980 Frankfurt Book fair, and made Bâ at the age of 30 world famous. Central themes in the novel are male-female relations in patriarchal society, the survival of the caste system and tradition of polygamy, and its effects on modern African family. "Books are a weapon, " Bâ once said, "a peaceful weapon perhaps, but they are a weapon." [eng] |
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Ba Mariama
Mariama Bâ est née en 1929 au Sénégal. Elle a été élevée par ses grands-parents, dans un milieu musulman traditionnel. Son père était Ministre de la Santé à l'époque de la loi cadre. Elle obtient son diplôme d'institutrice en 1947, enseigne pendant douze ans puis, pour des raisons de santé, demande son affectation à l'Inspection régionale de l'enseignement du Sénégal. Mère de 9 enfants, divorcée, elle a été l'épouse du député Obèye Diop. En 1980 elle a obtenu le Prix Noma avec son premier roman. Elle est morte l'année suivante, peu avant la parution de son second ouvrage. [fra] |
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Heinemann: Mariama Bâ
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