Maboula Soumahoro

Born on 3 February 1976 in Paris, Maboula Soumahoro was the sixth of the family's seven children. A Muslim of Ivorian origin, after spending her early childhood in the Ivory Coast, she moved to France where she and her siblings were brought up in the working-class district of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. After doing well at school, she studied English at the Paris-East Créteil University where she went on to earn a master's degree in 1999 with a dissertation on The Creation of the State of Liberia. While at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, she earned a scholarship to study for a year at Columbia University, New York, where she later returned to teach. In 2020, she published Le triangle et l’hexagone inspired by her own experiences as an anti-racist Black French Muslim. == Works ==

• ''Le Triangle et l'Hexagone'' (La Découverte, 2020, ) • Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Polity, 2021, ) == Career ==

• French scholar and writer • Associate professor in the English Department of the University of Tours • Chair and co-founder of the Black History Month association in 2013 ==References==