So Long a Letter | Still a Victim? Mariama Ba's Une si Longue Lettre
In the following review, Femi Ojo-Ade discusses Mariama Ba's Une Si Longue Lettre, a novel that expresses the writer's desire to showcase women's role in a heavily patriarchal society and how they struggle against and within that structure while striving for a revolutionized future.
'Women are man's proletariat.' (Karl Marx)
'Woman is inferior to man and is his subject.' (The Koran)
The head of every man is Christ; the head of every woman is man.' (The Bible)
Introduction
Since the first contact with the white world, black literature has remained a literature of the underprivileged, a voice of the victim, a mirror of man's inhumanity to man, a record of the revolt of the recalcitrant against the cultural rape perpetrated by the racist colonizer. Unfortunately, the community has emerged worse off than...
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