Contextualise this passage in relation to the plot and connect it to main themes in So Long a Letter. How does it contribute to the reading of So Long a Letter (translated text), as a feminist novel? You should also draw on other passeges in the novel to.

The griots spoke of young Nabou's sons, they exalted them: 'Blood returned to the source.'

Your sons did not count. Mawdo's mother, a princess, could not recognize herself in the sons of a goldsmith's daughter.

In any case, could a goldsmith's daughter have any dignity, any honour? This was tantamount to asking whether you had a heart and flesh. Ah! For some people the honour and chagrin of a goldsmith's daughter count for less, much less than the and chagrin of a Guelewar.

Mawdo did not drive you away. He did his duty and wished that you would stay on. Young Nabou would stay with his mother; it was you he loved. Every other night he would go to his mother's place to see his other wife, so that his mother 'would not die', to 'fulfil his duty' (Ba 31).