Simon Njami

Simon Njami is a Paris-based independent curator, lecturer, art critic, and novelist. He was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revue Noire, a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art, and served as artistic director of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography from 2001–7 and Dak’Art 2016/2018. His books include biographies of James Baldwin and Leopold Sédar Senghor as well as four novels.