So Long a Letter is a novel written in letter form between West African woman Ramatoulaye Fall and her best friend Aissatou Ba. Ramatoulaye relates details of her life to Aissatou, including discussing her husband's death and, obliquely, the state of women's rights in West Africa. Aissatou has left for America by the time of Ramatoulaye's writing, and Ramatoulaye finds herself jealous and conflicted at her friend's different way of life and feminist leanings.
I have always heard about and read of women in Africa being treated unfairly and not being able to express their opinions This is the first time though that I have read a which book that really gave me an insight into what could be the innermost feelings of a woman in Africa who goes through what every woman must dread going through abandonment by her husband for another woman This is what the female protagonist Ramatoulaye goes through and more in Mariama Bs novel So Long A Letter In this essa
The story of So long a letter gives us an insight of the struggle faced by Ramatoulaye after her husband brings in a second wife Ramatoulayes feeling and emotions are brought out to us as she is writing to her friend in real sense the reader creeps into Ramatoulayes mind as she write a letter to her best friend Aissatou By using this it seems that writer wants us to see the full picture of the life of a woman in Senegal and the way it is influenced by religion education and culture Mariama Ba s