Achille Mbembe’s decolonization
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.
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Achille Mbembe’s Fanonian meditations
Mbembe’s 'Critique of Black Reason' is useful for our analysis of the postcolonial present.
The Year of Frantz Fanon
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.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
The State of South African Political Life
Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.
Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
The limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
Decolonizing humanity
The political philosopher Achille Mbembe’s latest book asks us to emerge from the enclosure of race.
Things fall apart
Paranoia is my friend since, as Achille Mbembe says, “the pandemic democratizes the power to kill; now we all have the power to kill.”
Achille Mbembe’s Africa
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.”
Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.
The idea of a borderless world
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.
The universal right to breathe
Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?
Against climate resilience
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.
Reading List: Edna Bonhomme
The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.
The most influential African thinker
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
Reading List: Dotun Ayobade
What can the lives of the women behind Afrobeat tell us about creativity, resistance, and the interplay of power and pleasure in 1970s Nigeria?