Education
After completing her elementary education in her native village, she studied at the Malick Sy Secondary School in Thièson
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Seit Urzeiten lag ihr Dorf im schützenden Schatten des Baobab, des Affenbrotbaums. Auf der Suche nach einer Zukunft, nach Wissen und Bildung zieht Ken in die Stadt und erhält ein Stipendium für ein Studium in Europa. Dort ist sie den Blicken auf der Straße, dem ständigen Wechselbad von Ablehnung und Anmache ausgesetzt. Verzweifelt und verloren sucht sie dennoch die Anerkennung, wo sie am leichtesten zu finden ist: in den Nachtclubs und in den Bars. Hier wird sie schließlich zur Philosophin schwarzer und weiblicher Kultur. Sensibel und schonungslos schildert sie, was es bedeutet, unter Weißen schwarz und schön zu sein.
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After completing her elementary education in her native village, she studied at the Malick Sy Secondary School in Thièson
In the Wolof language, the name means "one who is unwanted". Bugul was raised in a polygamous environment, born to a father who was an 85-year-old marabout. After a year in Dakar, she obtained a scholarship that allowed her to continue study in Belgium.
In 1980 she returned to her home, where she became the 28th wife in the harem of the village marabout.
After his death, she returned to the big city. From 1986 to 1993, she worked for the non-governmental organization IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Foundation) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Brazzaville, Congo. And Lomé, Togo. Today she lives and works as a dealer of arts and crafts in Porto-Novo, Benin.
Bugul"s literary reputation has varied from place to place.
She was awarded the Grand prix littéraire d"Afrique noire for her novel Riwan ou le Chemin de Sable in 2000, but is better known among American readers for her novel The Abandoned Baobab, which is her only book to date to have been translated into English. This autobiographical work deals with and critiques African colonialism. As of late, her status among American feminists has diminished somewhat, as many have critiqued her for marrying a holy man who already had more than 20 wives.
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This is perhaps undeserved, and is a good example of ideologies clashing, as the criticism is the result of American feminists attempting to hold Bugul up to the standards of Western feminism, which is worlds away from her Senegalese experience.