#  Nadia Yala Kisukidi 

 

 



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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.



 

 

 



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