Photo Credit: Hassan Hajjaj 
Photo Credit: Hassan Hajjaj

Mukhtara Ayọtẹjú Adékúnbi Yusuf (they/them) is a decolonial designer and researcher from Ibadan, Nigeria. Mukhtara creates at epistemological cross-roads muddying binaries between science and the spiritual, conceptually centering ‘indigenous technology’ and ‘neo-animism’ in their design and research practice.

  • Founder of llè a design lab and studio based in Lagos, Nigeria,

  • Former visiting assistant professor at NYU Tandon's Integrated Design and Media program.

  • Lead facilitator of Indigelab Network’s Indigenous Art as Method Working

  • BA from Dartmouth College

  • MA in Communications and Media from UCSD

  • MFA in Design from UT Austin;  Architecture minor.

  • Certifications/trainings in Somatic Abolitionism and Healthy Materials.

Speaker at Stanford University, the Blanton Museum, and the Fakugesi Innovation Festival. Shared the stage with artists such as Questlove of the Roots Crew and DC’s Mambo Sauce at John F Kennedy Center for Performing Art  Featured in HBOs Brave New Voices, UNESCOs Women in African History Project