Aminata Sow Fall

Aminata Sow Fall was born on 27 April 1941 in Saint-Louis. She studied in Saint-Louis and then in Dakar, took a degree in modern literature in France, married in 1963 and returned to teach. A member of the commission for the reform of French teaching, she brought African authors into the curriculum, then from 1979 to 1988 headed literature and intellectual property at the Ministry of Culture. The first woman to chair her country's writers' association, in 1985, she founded a cultural centre and a publishing house. She is the mother of seven children.

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• NovelThe Beggars' StrikeLa Grève des bàttuAminata Sow Fall · 1979Literature