Black is the Journey, Africana the Name. Maboula Soumahoro

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Black is the Journey, Africana the Name

      Maboula Soumahoro

      Translated by Kaiama L. Glover

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      Originally published in French as Le triangle et l’hexagone: Réflexions sur une identité noire © Éditions La Découverte, Paris, 2020

      This English edition © Polity Press, 2022

      Cover artwork: ‘M. Angelou’ | In ‘The Malediction of Cham’ series | 2020

      Painting, mixed media, 47 × 47 in

      Artist | Marielle Plaisir

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4832-3

      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4833-0 (pb)

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