She was awarded the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for her novel Riwan ou le Chemin de Sable in 2000, but is better known among American readers for her novel The Abandoned Baobab, which is her only book to date to have been translated into English.
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Le Baobab Fou (1982); translated into English as The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman (1991)
Although Ndoucoumane holds nearly no importance for western civilization, the area is noted in Ken Bugul's book The Abandoned Baobab or in the original French, Le Baobab Fou, meaning the crazy baobab.
The Abandoned Baobab | Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike | Ombalantu baobab tree | Abandoned Mine | Order of the Baobab | Orchestra Baobab | Baobab—''Adansonia digitata'' | A Year Along the Abandoned Road | Abandoned village |