In her second novel, Scarlet Song (1981), Mariama Bâ describes the difficulties faced by an interracial couple in Senegal.
Ken Bugul, a Senegalese woman who studied in Belgium, wrote her autobiography, The Mad Bâobab Tree in 1982. In it she describes how she violated the traditions of her upbringing.
In her 1975 autobiography, A Dakar Childhood, Nafissatou Diallo describes growing up in Senegal. A Dakar Childhood.....
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