The School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology presents:

Black is the Journey, Africana the Name: A Conversation with Maboula Soumahoro on African Diasporas and Identities.

Join us on Thursday, January 20 in Swann 106 and online at 5 PM. A reception will follow.   

Bluejeans link for the event: https://bluejeans.com/610367899/9149?src=join_info  

(Meeting ID: 610 367 899. Participant Passcode: 9149)

Dr. Soumahoro will be in conversation with Ivan Allen College’s Christophe Ippolito, Brigitte Stepanov and Samba Sy on her latest book, Le Triangle et l’Hexagone : Réflexions sur une identité noire, translated into English by Kaiama L. Glover as Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name (Polity, 2021). This event will be in English. 

Maboula Soumahoro, Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Tours (France), is a resident with Villa Albertine Atlanta from November 2021- January 2022.   

We thank the Villa Albertine and the Consulate General of France in Atlanta as well as the Department of French and Italian at Emory University for their support.