Yacouba Konaté (4 May 1953) is a curator, writer, art critic and professor of philosophy at the Université de Cocody in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He is a member of l'Académie des Arts, des Sciences et des Cultures d'Afrique et des Diasporas in Abidjan and he leads the Africa Office of the Jean Paul Blachère's Foundation. In 1998 he was Fulbright Professor at Stanford University, between 2004–2008 he taught at l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in France. In 2007 he taught at the Laval University in Canada and in 2007 he was a Carter Fellow at the University of Florida, Gainesville.