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          Grada Kilomba

          Portuguese artist and academic psychologist

          Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist and writer whose works critically examine memory, trauma, gender, racism and post-colonialism.[1] She uses various formats to express herself ranging from text to scenic reading and performance (performing knowledge).

          Moreover, she combines academic and lyrical narrative.

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        3. Grada Kilomba is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and psychoanalyst whose work investigates themes of trauma, racism, and post-colonial narratives.
        4. Kilomba was born in the periphery of Lisbon amongst many African diasporic communities where issues around belonging and not belonging, speaking.

          5. In 2012, she was guest professor for gender and postcolonial studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[2]

          Life

          Grada Kilomba was born in Lisbon and is of West African descent (São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola).

          In Lisbon, she studied clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the Instituto de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA). While practicing as a psychologist in Portugal, she worked in psychiatry with war-traumatised people from Angola and Mozambique and initiated various artistic and therapeutic projects on trauma and memory as well as on the work of Frantz Fanon.

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