Nadia Yala Kisukidi

Nadia Yala Kisukidi is Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at NYU, and Maîtresse de Conférences in philosophy at Université Paris Vincennes-Saint-Denis. 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 numerous 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).

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). A member of the editorial committee of Les Cahiers d’études africaines (CNRS, EHESS), she was co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa / DRC — a process that took place in Kinshasa from February 2020 to August 2022.

Under the supervision of Pierre Singaravelou, she co-coordinated, along with historians Mélanie Lamotte, Arthur Asseraf, and Guillaume Blanc, the book Colonisations. Notre histoire (Paris, Seuil, 2023). She 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 Canada, 2023).