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
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