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Njami published his first novel "Cercueil et Cie" in 1985, followed by "Les
Enfants de la Cité" in 1987, and "Les Clandestins" and "African Gigolo" in 1989. He has written biographies of
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102:. He curated the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg in 2008, and was the artistic director of Luanda Triennale (2010), Picha (Lubumbashi Biennale – 2010), SUD (
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Chroniques d'un millénaire / Chronicles of a
Millennium, introduction au catalogue des IVè Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Eric Koehler, Paris, 2001
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Imagined
Communities, in Condition Report, Symposium on Building Art Institutions in Africa, edited by Koyo Kouoh, Hatje Cantz and Raw Material Company, Dakar, 2013
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Issa Samb (The stranger), Word ! Word ? Word !, edited by Koyo Kouoh, Office for
Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Raw Material Company, 2013
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A certain View of
Mankind, for the exhibition Portraits of Pride, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Raster Forlag, 2002
208:"I've been abducted hundreds of times", a solo show by Gosha Ostretsov, curated by Simon Njami, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Nani Bernardo, May–June, 2017.
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Le mystère révélé/ The
Mystery revealed, introduction au catalogue des V Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Eric Koehler, Paris, 2003
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El
Anatsui, un artiste sur le fil de l'histoire, in El Anatsui, A Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, Saffron Books, London, 1998
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Impudence of the Stars, in Light Years, an exhibition of the Spanish artist Eugènia Balcells, Edicions de l'Eixample, Barcelona, 2012
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Lhoooby, documentary on African Contemporary Art, co-directed and written with Pascale Marthine Tayou and Jean-Loup Pivin, Arte, 1997
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Der Kurator als Nackter König, Kontextualisierung und Dekontextualisierung, in the catalogue South meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, 2000
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The Burst of Silence, in Deutscher Pavilion 2013, 55th International Art Exhibition, edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Gestalten, 2013
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L'Afrique par elle-mĂŞme, photographies (co-curator), Paris, SĂŁo Paulo, Londres, Bamako, Washington, Berlin, Cape Town, 1998/1999
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Art at Work, co-produced by the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Co-curator with David Adjaye, Ouagadougou, Addis Ababa, 2010
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Black Power, Black Music: a documentary film in a thematic evening written and directed with Jean-François Bizot, Arte, 1994
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The End of the Empire, catalogue de l'exposition Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tankosha Publishing Co, Kyoto/Tokyo, 2003
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Co-editor and co-author of Rotimi Fani-Kayodé et Alex Hirst, Photographs, Revue Noire/Autograph, Paris/Londres, 1996
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The Re-enchantment of the World, an introduction to the work of the Congolese artist Pume, Revue Noire, Paris, 2012
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Njami's exhibition "The Divine Comedy – Heaven, Hell, Purgatory by Contemporary African Artists" was shown at MMK (
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Co-editor and co-author of the Antholoy of XXth Century African Art, Revue Noire, Paris, 2001, DAP, New York, 2002
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Jane Alexander, A Turbulent Silence, introduction to the catalogue of Daimler Chrysler Award, Hatje Cantz, 2002
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Co-editor and co-author of the Anthology of African Photography, Revue Noire, Paris, 1997, DAP, New York, 1999
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Allons enfants !, in Intense Proximité, Une anthologie du Proche et du Lointain, La Triennale, 2012
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Stabat Mater, an introduction to the work of the Haitian artist Mario Benjamin, Revue Noire, Paris, 2012
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Das doppelte glĂĽck der sanftmut und der bitterkeit, in the catalogue of Africa Apart, NGBK, Berlin, 2002
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Remembrance of things Past, Ten years of debate about African Contemporary Art, Tobu Museum of Art, 1998
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Afriques Capitales, La Villette, Paris, and Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, France, March - September, 2017.
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Memory in the Skin, Looking both Ways catalogue, Museum for African Art, New York, Snoeck, Gent, 2003
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Portrait of Marrakech, Magnum Photos and Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Art (MMP+), 2013
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Dorian Gray in Bangui, works by Samuel Fosso, La Fabrica/Revue Noire Publishers, France, Spain, 2010
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Pascale Marthine Tayou, Between himself and the Other, with Pierre-Olivier Rollin, text for the
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L'invention de la vie, in Peut-on ĂŞtre vivant en Afrique, Presses Universitaires de France, 2000
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in 2019. In 2023, he was part of the six-person search committee for an artistic director of
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A Young Woman in Quest, the work of Loulou Cherinet, catalogue Biennale de Sydney, 2004
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Les Spores de l'Ă©tamine, in the catalogue of the exhibition Afriques, Barcelona, 2001
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Mozart and Me, Fernando Alvim – the Psychoanalysis of the World, Ingrid Mwangi, 2003
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Africa Remix, DĂĽsseldorf, Londres, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, Johannesburg, 2004/2007
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Chaos et Métamorphose, introduction à l’exposition Africa Remix, Hatje Cantz, 2004
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El Corazon de las luces, in Planeta Kurtz, Random House Mondadori, Barcelona, 2002
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Un mystère à conserver (on the French photographer Laurence Leblanc.), 2009
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Un prisme lucide – photographies, Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2004
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After a Promise to Return African Artifacts, France Moves Toward a Plan
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James Baldwin ou le devoir de violence, biography, Seghers, Paris, 1991
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Le complot d'Aristote (screenplay), a film by Jean Pierre Bekolo, 1996
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Suites Africaines (co-curator), Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, 1997
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On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles
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The constant Gardner, an introduction to Mechac Gaba's work, 2009
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Ordinary pain, Noorderlicht festival Groningen, September 2009
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Fictional Faculties, IUAV, University of Venice, Venice, 2012
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Samuel Fosso, a dandy in Bangui, Revue Noire/La Fabrica, 2011
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Moataz Nasr, Chain reaction, Chateau de Blandy, France, 2011
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Les Clandestins, novel, Gallimard, Folio Junior, Paris, 1989
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Artistic Director of Picha (Lubumbabshi biennale), Oct 2010
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In Ethiopia, Visual Storytelling From a Deeper Perspective
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Balck Micmac (collaboration), a film by Thomas Gilou, 1986
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Introduction de Andrew Tshabangu's works (monograph), 2008
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A useful dream, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, June 2010
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Claude Rosticher : la poésie à l’œuvre, Monaco, 2004
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Introduction to Youssef Nabil's works (catalogue), 2007
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Cronicas del hijo de un siglo, Espacio C, Camargo, 2002
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The Invention of memory, RĂ©union Island, September 2007
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Ananias LĂ©ki, Fragments, Goethe-Institut Nairobi, 2012
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Dokolo/Revue Noire Collection, Bamako encounters, 2011
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Introduction to Moataz Nasr's works (catalogue), 2008
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Amal Kenawy, catalogue de la Biennale de Sydney, 2005
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Le temps de l'Afrique, Las Palmas, 2000, Madrid, 2001
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