Introduction

West African women’s autobiographical narratives show the strengths, hopes, achievements and challenges of female agency in Sub-Saharan African Islamic cultures. Pivotal examples of such narratives include Aoua Kéita’s Femme d’Afrique: La vie d’Aoua Kéita racontée par elle-même (1975), Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981), and Kadiatou Diallo’s My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My…