Mariama Ba and the secret of happiness

There is hardly anyone who doesn’t desire happiness - it is the end of all our aspirations and endeavours. Mariama Ba encourages this pursuit.

Mariama Ba was a Senegalese author and feminist who wrote in French.

I first read Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter as a law undergraduate at the University of Lagos. Ten years on and now a lawyer, I still have not fully recovered from it. Mariama Ba transformed something within me and helped me refine my outlook to life. Whenever I go back to her book, I fi…