So Long A Letter - Mariama Bâ (Senegal)
This short novel is written as a really long letter written by the protagonist Ramatoulaye to her childhood friend Aissatou, now living in the USA.
Across the pages however we get to discover the lives of more women with different ages, tribes, social footing and education. We get to see each of them respond to the challenges that came with living through Senegal’s independence years when, like many other African nations, it still struggled to reconcile a women’s place in this new “liberated” society.