Mustafa Okon-Briggs reflects on the legacy of African Muslim women scholars, focusing on the Senegambian region and Sheikh Amadou Bamba’s family. He highlights how women—like Bamba’s grandmother, mother, and daughters—played central roles as teachers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, and spiritual guides. Their empowerment emerged not by rejecting African and Islamic traditions but by working within them, using teaching, poetry, and service to uplift their communities. Their lives offer a powerful, tradition-rooted model of female authority and leadership that continues to inspire in West African Muslim societies.