Nadia Yala Kisukidi

thumb|Nadia Kisukidi Nadia Yala Kisukidi (born 8 October, 1978) is a French philosopher, writer and academic, who has re-examined the notion of "blackness" with its colonial implications in France and the rest of Europe.Also interested in contemporary art, she has been selected as one of two curators for the 2020 Yango Biennale in Kinshasa.Kisukidi, who has written widely on French and Africana philosophy, published Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice (Bergson or Creative Humanity) in 2013. Quotes The history of colonization is not a closed chapter. It continues to structure today’s inequalities, forced displacements, racial hierarchies and the way we decide who has the right to exist and who can be silenced, expelled or forgotten. The black body, like rain and lightning, refuses to grow. Armed with the art of dissociation, a wad of stolen bills and a wet manual, a dwarf takes flight at daybreak. From the mining villages of the North to the high-rise housing projects of the Parisian suburbs, from an artists' squat to a hotel room closet, from a post office hostel in the 16th arrondissement to an anarchist utopia born from the concrete of Ivry, from destitution to resourcefulness, from struggle to revolution, it is the story of a mad journey at the foot of the world, among ghosts, in the holes of memory. The term "Pan-Africanism" was unknown before the beginning of the 20th century when Henry Sylvester-Williams, from Trinidad, and William Edward Burghardt DuBois, from the United States, both descendants of Africans, used it at several Pan-African congresses, which were attended mainly by American scholars of African descent. A notable contribution to African nationalism and Pan-Africanism was Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" movement. (Nkrumah 2009) The flag of the Black nation, with its three horizontal stripes of red, black, and green, must therefore be raised across the continent. This flag, which has since become the popular symbol of Pan-Africanism and Black liberation worldwide, was created at the First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World, organized by the UNIA in August 1920 in New York. The association also adopted an anthem, " The Universal Ethiopian Anthem ," and elected Garvey "Provisional President of Africa. External links Category: living people Category:Philosophers from France Category:Women academics from France Category:Women authors from France Category:1978 births Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:People from Brussels