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Overlooked No More: Mariama Bâ, Voice of African Feminism

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. There weren’t many opportunities for girls growing up in Senegal under French colonial rule. They could become subservient housewives, farmers or, if they were lucky enough to …

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