Maboula Soumahoro

Maboula Soumahoro is a French scholar and Afro-feminist whose parents came to France from the Ivory Coast in the late 1960s. An associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours, she specializes in studies on Afro-American diaspora and has published a paper on Rastafarianism. A contributor to the French committee on the history of slavery, Soumahoro launched the French version of Black History Month in 2011. In 2020, she published Le triangle et l’hexagone inspired by her own experiences as an anti-racist Black French Muslim.