# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mariama-ba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:43:05.971Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mariama-ba"
name: "Mariama Bâ"
slug: "mariama-ba"
description: "Mariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist. Her two French-language novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages each. Born in Dakar, Senegal, she was raised a Muslim."
tagline: "Senegalese writer (1929–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mariama_B%C3%A2_vers_1958_Unesco_Domaine_public.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-04-17"
deathDate: "1981-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump