Yacouba Konaté (born 4 May 1953) is an Ivorian curator, writer and art critic.

He is a professor of philosophy at the Université de Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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.

He is also head of the l'Institut national supérieur des Arts et de l'action culturelle of Abidjan.

[3] He was one of the curators of individual exhibitions of 6th Dak'Art[4] ( 7 May – 7 June 2004 ) with Ivo Mesquita and Hans Ulrich Obrist.