Both had a strong feminist character which reappeared in his works, along with concerns for Pan-Africanism and struggle against unjust authority. All these were combined in another well known work, "Njangaan" (The Disciple, 1975), which follows a young boy, escaping an abusive father, who falls prey to an equally abusive religious teacher. Papers noted the coincidence that Traoré had died on 2010's International Women's Day.[4][5]