So Long a Letter Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapters 10-12 Summary

Chapters 10-12 Summary

In the narrator's reflections, Modou's charisma and devotion to the workers' plight earn him promotion after promotion in the trade union organizations. Mawdo, a popular physician, is busy working at a crowded hospital because people now preferred western medicine to the traditional medicine.

The unrest in North Africa has been at the center of long debates; and, despite political oppression, the younger generation speaks of independence. When the republic is finally born, the dominant political party leads the country.

Modou, who has been practical, collaborated with the dominant party. However, he thinks that the new leaders are depleting the country's resources and wasting the money that would have had better use in the hands of workers.

In the meantime, Aissatou's mother-in-law, still angry over Mawdo's marriage, prepares revenge against the narrator's best friend. Aunty Nabou, Mawdo's mother, is a widow and her son is the only man in her life....
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