Mariama Ndoye


Mariama Ndoye-Mbengue is a Senegalese writer born Mariama Ndoye. She became "Ndoye-Mbengue" on marriage. She has a doctorate in French language and literature. She has received awards for her short-stories and novels. For a period until 1986, she was curator of the IFAN Museum of African Arts in Dakar. She has also lived abroad spending 15 years in the Côte d'Ivoire and currently living in Tunisia.