Simon Njami (born 1962 in Lausanne) is a writer and an independent curator, lecturer, art critic and essayist.

He has written biographies of James Baldwin and Léopold Sédar Senghor, several short texts, scripts for cinema, and documentary films.

Njami is the co-founder of Revue Noire,[1] a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art, and he was visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego.

[2][3] Njami is the curator of "Africa Remix", showed in Düsseldorf (Museum Kunstpalast), London (Hayward Gallery), Paris (Centre Pompidou), Tokyo (Mori Museum), Stockholm (Moderna Museet) and Johannesburg (Johannesburg Art Gallery), from 2004 to 2007.

[8] In 2023, he was briefly part of the six-person search committee for an artistic director of Documenta’s 2027 edition but resigned shortly after.