Resume: Yacouba Konate
Yacouba Konate, Curator, University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Concody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He has been part of the EU expert team on cultural development since 1997. In 2000, Professor Konate served as a Director of the National Institute of Arts and Culture and as a Director of the Cabinet of Ministers of Culture and Francophony. He is also the member of Board of the Administrative Council of the International association of Art Critics. He is a writer, scholar, art critic, and curator of numerous exhibitions around the world. He wrote several books about and articles about contemporary African culture and politics. Among the countries he has been working in are South Africa, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Zimbabwe, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Brazil, Cuba and India. Most recently, Professor Konate has been the artistic director of Dak’Art 2006, the 7th Biennial of Contemporary African Art.
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