April 4, 2024

Africana is the Name: Scripting Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Maboula Soumahoro
PARIS, SNF RDV
Reid Hall | 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
Free and open to the public
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Maboula Soumahoro will introduce the audience to her screen adaptation of Maryse Condé’s Segu, which she is currently working on at the Institute.

What is at stake in what can be understood as an exercise in translation, from one form (literature) to another (series), but also as a “practice of diaspora”?

Learn more about Maboula Soumahoro

The Rendez-Vous de l’Institut Series is generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. You will find a full calendar of the Fellows’ Talk here.

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