Maboula Soumahoro is an associate professor in the English Department at the Université de Tours. A Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in 2023–2024, she was also Mellon Arts Project International Visiting Professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University in 2022–2023, as well as Visiting Professor at Bennington College. A renowned specialist in Africana Studies, she has conducted research and taught at several universities and correctional institutions in the United States and France. She is the author of Le Triangle et l'Hexagone, réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte, 2021), which received special mention from the FetKann! Maryse Condé literary prize in 2020. This book was translated into English by Kaiama L. Gover under the title Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Polity, 2021). Maboula Soumahoro is the translator into French of Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007), published as À perte de mère. Sur les routes atlantique de l’esclavage (Brook, 2023). Maboula Soumahoro is president of the Black History Month association dedicated to celebrating black histories and cultures.