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...writers in a hitherto male world were Mariama Bâ, recipient of the first Noma Award for publishing in Africa for Une Si Longue Lettre (1980; So Long a Letter), and Aminata Sow Fall, a fellow Senegalese, who earned praise for La Grève des battu ou les déchets humains (1979; The Beggar’s Strike), an ironic novella of great...
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