Lydie Diakhaté is a film producer/director and curator for exhibitions & cultural programs.
Her objective is to produce and disseminate African and African Diaspora films and other arts. She is also an art critic specializing in the contemporary arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora and has written for different magazines and newspapers.

Lydie Diakhaté is an independent producer and art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. She is the founder of K'a Yelema Productions in Paris and is co-founder and co-director of the Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra. Her recent works on art programs include: African Screens: New Perspectives in African Cinema, March and April 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal; The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (September 31, 2008 - March 29, 2009); and the parallel exhibition The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art, at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University (September 16 - December 6, 2008. She directed Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards (Documentary, 50mins, 2016).
She received her diploma from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Visual Anthropology Department) and her MA (Museum Studies), from The Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.