• Sindre Bangstad

Mbembe’s work serves as a guide to understand our fragmented global present and the urgent matter of charting ways out of our shared dark night.

• Sindre Bangstad

Mbembe’s 'Critique of Black Reason' is useful for our analysis of the postcolonial present.

• Sean Jacobs

• Thando Njovane

To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?

• Elliot Ross

• Corinna Jentzsch

Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.

• Thomas Blaser

An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.

• Thomas Blaser

Europe's new provincialism exacts a human toll that can only be accepted with a mind-set that subscribes to nothing more than a new barbarism.

• Gregory Mann

The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: "Afrique 3.0." We had a closer look. Is it any good?

• Serginho Roosblad

A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.

• Orlando Reade

• Sean Jacobs

If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick? 

• Basia Cummings

John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.

• Achille Mbembe

What gives Fanon's thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”

• Tom Devriendt