Maboula Soumahoro, Associate Professor at the University of Tours, France, speaks about Black France and Africana Thought. The event will be both in-person and on Zoom.

Maboula Soumahoro is an associate professor at the University of Tours and president of the Black History Month Association, dedicated to celebrating Black history and cultures. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies, she has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France and was most recently the inaugural Villa Albertine Resident in Atlanta. Maboula Soumahoro is the 2022-2023 Mellon Arts Project International Visiting Professor at the African-American and Africana Studies Department of Columbia University as well as Visiting Faculty at Bennington College. Soumahoro is the author of Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: Réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte, 2020) which was recently translated into English as Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Cambridge, 2022, translated by Dr. Kaiama Glover)

This is part of the 2022-23 Speaker Series on Studies in Black Life and Thought. The series is a collaboration between the Center for Africana Studies and the Diaspora Solidarities Lab. It is co-sponsored with the JHU European Seminar and the JHU Black World Seminar.