Chrystel Oloukoï is a HMUI graduate fellow and PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University. She holds a MA in Geography from the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is an alumni of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris. Her MA and PhD research revolve around nightlife and the politics of leisure in (post)colonial Lagos and Johannesburg, which she interrogates through archival work, sonic ethnographic methods (sound walks), photography and video. Retracing the legacies of colonialism on urban (night)life and their reinforcement by contemporary neoliberal logics, she draws the contours of a political economy of nightlife in contexts of depletion, unemployment, surplus-time and boredom, through the exploration of the complicated relation between imaginations of the night, of play and of rest. In particular, she interrogates the night as both a space time of experiment in techniques of policing and a site of fugitivity and excess.