James Baldwin wrote that “an identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience”. Today’s guest has been treading the path on the road to identity for a long time. Dr. Soumahoro is an French-born writer and professor, currently working an associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours, France, her alma mater. One of my personal favourite authors and diasporans, Soumahoro’s book Le Triangle et L’Hexagon or The Triangle and the Hexagon is an homage to black identity, woven with historical knowledge, as well as personal experience, Soumahoro dives deep into what it means to be black, to be a diasporan, to speak a mother tongue that is not your mother’s tongue and above all to excavate an identity that is true to oneself - in all one’s multitudes.
