Maya Angela Smith

Biografía

Maya Angela Smith began her career primarily focused on issues of language and identity among members of the Francophone African diaspora. Recent writing continues exploring this intersection but through the lens of music. Her book, Ne me quitte pas, analyzes how the song—a text, a piece of cultural production written in a specific context, and a work of mass/popular art—travels across languages, geographies, genres, and generations by using Nina Simone’s single as a point of departure.