Buata Malela

Who is Buata Malela?

Buata Bundu Malela is a specialist in comparative literature and historian of the intellectuals of the Afro-West-Indian diaspora. He was born in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1979 to Congolese and Senegalese parents.

He completed his studies in Belgium and in France, receiving a doctor of philosophy and letters degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels and the Université Paul Verlaine - Metz in France. He is specialized in the questions relating to the postcolonial studies, with the sociology of the Francophone literatures of Africa and of the Caribbean, with the accounts of slaves from France, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the migrant literatures, like with the relations between philosophy and literature of originating in Africa and in the Caribbean.

Moreover, Buata B. Malela is interested in the matters touching with cultural diversity, the postcolonialism and the relations between literature and cultural universalization. Author of many studies on the Afro-West-Indian intellectuals and of hexagonal France, he published a book on Afro-West-Indian writers in their relation with the Parisian intellectual world of the colonial era.