Presidential candidate for the Diomaye President coalition Bassirou Diomaye Faye , and his wives Marie Khone Faye and Absa Faye looks on after casting their ballots at the École Ndiandiaye polling station in Ndiaganiao on March 24, 2024 during Senegal’s presidential elections. In the closing moments of the electoral campaign, Senegal’s president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, stepped onto the stage holding the hands of both his wives Marie and Absa.
Reputed sociologist Fatou Sow Sarr said on X, formerly Twitter, that “polygamy, monogamy, polyandry are matrimonial models determined by the history of every nation”. Nevertheless, many Senegalese women say they find polygamy hypocritical and unfair, while the UN Human Rights Committee said in a 2022 report that it amounted to discrimination against women and should be ended.In her 1979 novel “So Long a Letter”, Senegalese author Mariama Ba was fiercely critical of polygamy, depicting the pain and loneliness of a woman after her husband took a second, younger wife.
“Until now, there was only one First Lady. This means the entire protocol must be reviewed,” he added. But according to a 2013 report by the national statistics and demographics agency, 32.5 percent of married Senegalese people were in a polygamous union.
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