Nadia Yala Kisukidi

Nadia Yala Kisukidi writer and philosopher. She is actually Associate Professor in the French department of literature, thought and culture at NYU and affiliated to .the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis (France) .She was vice-president of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014-2016) and fellow at the Institute for Ideas and imagination/ Columbia University (2022-23). She was co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa / RDC – a process that took place in Kinshasa from february 2020 to august 2022.

Nadia Yala Kisukidi is specialized in french and africana philosophy. She has published Bergson ou l’humanité créatrice (Paris, CNRS, 2013), directed collective essays ( Afrocentricités (Kisukidi, Guedj dir.) for the revue Tumultes in 2019 ; Kinshasa Star Line (Kisukidi dir.)  for the revue Multitudes in 2020)and written many articles in french and africana philosophy. She has written a book with the feminist and Brazilian philosopher Djamila Ribeiro, Dialogue transatlantique (Paris, Anacaona, 2021), and her first novel, La Dissociation (Paris,  Le seuil, 2022).

Under the supervision of Pierre Singaravelou, she coordinated with the historians Melanie Lamotte, Arthur Asseraf and Guillaume Blanc, the book : Colonisations. Notre histoire, Paris, Seuil, 2023. She also published “Walking barefoot”, in Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, Rinaldo Walcott, Nadia Yala Kisukidi and Christina Sharpe, Borders, human itineraries, and all our relation, Toronto, Knopf edition Canada, 2023.