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The paper is guided by feminist theoretical framework whose starting point is African women. This reflection gives scholars and other readers confidence to trust women's judgment and begin to shape new realities. This paper reflects on three literary texts and how the writers interrogate the women's struggle for their own liberation and experiences that they go through and how this is interpreted. Knowledge making has for centuries excluded women and for many centuries scholarship and historical and other studies did not consider women's perspectives and knowledge a priority worthy documenting. It is the power to declare that this view is the truth, you name and control it. Knowledge is the most important thing humans create. This study however focuses on the benefits of education to women and how they act as a weapon fighting against polygamy. The story centers on two educated women who had happy, loving marriages until their husbands took second wives. She addresses about the multiple women's issues. Ba's first novel, So Long a Letter unraveled the complex lives of African women. Her contribution is prominent and compelling because she explained and described the disadvantaged position of women in general and especially with married women. She defended women's rights, delivered speeches, and wrote articles in local newspapers. As a divorcee and 'a modern Muslim woman' as she characterized herself, Ba was active in women's associations. She was a pioneer to illustrate the disadvantaged position of women in African society. Indeed, her contribution is of absolute importance in modern African studies. Ba's source of determination and commitment to the feminist cause stemmed from her background, her parents' life and her schooling. Her frustration with the fate of African women as well as her ultimate acceptance of it is expressed in her first novel, So Long a Letter. Ba later married a Senegalese member of Parliament, Obèye Diop, but divorced him and was left to care for their nine children.

But against her grandparents' wishes, she graduated from the Teacher's College in 1947 and taught for 12 years. Being raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle to gain an education because they did not believe that girls should be taught.

Mariama Ba was a Senegalese author and feminist born in Dakar, Senegal and was raised a Muslim by her maternal grandparents.

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