Amina Sow Mbaye

Amina Sow Mbaye (born 25 September 1937) is a Senegalese writer and educator.

She was born in Saint-Louis. Because her father was in the military, she attended primary schools in various cities and then secondary school in Saint-Louis. She obtained her Brevet d'éducation du premier cycle, trained for three additional months and then taught school in Dagana and then Saint-Louis. After she completed her Brevet Supérieur de Capacité, she became headmistress of the Écoles normales régionales in Saint-Louis.

Mbaye has served as president of the Senegalese Federation of Women's Associations and of the. She was also the first qualified female basketball umpire in Senegal.

Selected works

 * Mademoiselle, novel (1984)
 * Pour le sang du mortier, novel (2001)
 * Petit essai sur la vieillesse (essay) and Les Bulles (poetry) (2007)