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Aminata Sow Fall marks a transition from the autobiography to the novel in African feminine literature. Her first novel Le Revenant (1976), is the first work of fiction written by a sub-Saharan female writer. Her second novel, La Grève des bàttu (1979), gave rise to an era of subversive writing which constitutes the point of separation between masculine and feminine discourse in francophone sub-Saharan literature. Indeed, the female characters in the microcosm of La Grève des bàttu have great courage and dignity. Lolli, Sine, Salla Niang, Sagar Diouf, Dibor and Dieng emerge to find their path and proclaim their voice in the midst of social conflicts. La Grève des bàttu is a towering achievement that set the tone for a new era of African feminine literature.

The rights claimed by the women in the world will never be served to them on a silver plate "Justice never comes ready-made down from heaven. Nowhere have the privileged, the powerful whether by fortune, birth, skin color, or sex spontaneously shared their privileges. Each liberty, each right has to be torn out forcibly. In many countries, women have not yet initiated this struggle. For to conquer their independence, it is necessary for them to have recognized their dependence. And this is undoubtedly the most difficult stage" That's the problem Lolli is coping with. She has never become aware of her dependence.