The PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association), a preeminent academic journal for literary studies, has published a special issue dedicated to the rediscovery of Senegalese author Mariama Bâ’s poem “Festac…Souvenirs de Lagos” (translated as “Festac…Memories of Lagos”). Bâ, most known for her 1979 novel So Long a Letter, passed away in 1981, and “Memories […]
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