Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a philosopher specializing in contemporary French and African thought. She has extensively studied the work of Henri Bergson, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga and Jean-Marc Ela, as well as that of other thinkers of the African diaspora, and has developed a major body of reflection on blackness and universalism that invites us to go beyond essentialisms and build a politics of solidarity. Kisukidi lectures at New York University, and has previously taught at the University of Geneva and the University of Paris 8. Her publications include the book Dialogue transatlantique (with Djamila Ribeiro, Anacona, 2021) and the novel La Dissociation (Seuil, 2022), and she has edited collections of essays such as Afrocentricités (Tumultes journal, 2019) and Colonisations. Notre histoire (with M. Lamotte, A. Asseraf and G. Blanc; Seuil, 2023), and the monograph Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice (CNRS, 2013). Kisukidi was guest thinker at the Institute for Art and Ideas of the University of Columbia (2022-23), member of the doctorate school of the Ateliers de la pensée de Dakar (2019) and Vice-President of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris (2014-16). She was also curator of the Yango II Contemporary Art Biennial in Kinshasa (2020-22).