The feminist struggle and agitation for equality in society have always been a part of the literary representation of gender roles. The present research paper aims to analyze the text and determine the novelist’s specific brand of feminism. The research paper focuses on the novel So Long a Letter and attempts to establish distinctiveness of Bâ’s feminist stance in it. However, there are existing claims among African feminist critics that Mariama Bâ portrays the oppression of women by men through the prevalent paradigms of tradition, polygamy, patriarchy, and Islamic religion in Senegal. This paper argues that while the protagonists' revolt against polygamy, religion, and tradition is real, it posits that any claim of a collective feminist struggle in So Long a Letter is ambivalent. Their engagement with rivalry and threats to marital fulfilment, an aspect which existing scholarship on the novel has often ignored, also undermines the claim of a collective feminist struggle for change and progress. In the end, both women succeed through universalism, formal education, and Westernization in attaining poise and contentment. The present study adopts an eclectic framework that leans on the theory of deconstruction by revealing the characterization, themes and study of the text. This article concludes that Bâ’ treatment of feminism in So Long a Letter is quite different as it is free from biased portraiture of a character based on gender. This sort of treatment in the text shows Bâ to be more humanist than feminist.