Simon Njami is a curator, lecturer, art critic, and novelist. He is co-founder and was the first editor-in-chief of Revue Noire, a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art. He has been a member of the scientific boards of numerous museums and institutions and a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego. He was the artistic director of the Dak’Art Biennale in 2016 and 2018, co-curator of the Bienal de São Paulo in 2004, and curator of numerous other exhibitions. He published and edited biographies on James Baldwin and Léopold Sédar Senghor and is the author of four novels. Njami lives and works in Paris.