This paper demonstrates that female African novelists have had a great and vital influence on the understanding of the cultural constraints that exist within the patriarchal frames of reference concerning women and the choices they make. Mariama Ba offers a rich and diverse interpretation and understanding of the politics of gender and individual choices common within conservative communities as far as crossgenerational differences are concerned. This work therefore underscores the fact that African societies as exemplified in Ba’s So Long a Letter have for a long time practised systems of meanings and values in maledominated contexts that work at the expense of women and their emotional stability. Understanding the concept of gender is therefore critical because of its dynamism in nature based on generational appraisal. It has a lot of ramifications provoked by intelligence, polemical grace, and a contagious pledge to expose the complexities of womanhood. The paper concludes that the older generation displays a complex sense of compliance and devotion to patriarchal values without challenging them, while the new generation confronts their apprehensions and despair to express their uniqueness. The feminist theory will used to buttress my arguments.