Chrystel Oloukoï is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, with concentrations in Social Anthropology, Critical Media Practice and Women Gender and Sexuality, as well as a predoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia (UVA). They hold degrees in Geography from the University Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris. Their dissertation “Night/life: Maroon Ecologies of the Night in Lagos” examines imaginations of the night in Lagos and the afterlives of colonial technologies of temporal discipline.