
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.
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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.
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
English Professor and Editor of Brittle Paper, recommends five books she’s been reading.
The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.
What can the lives of the women behind Afrobeat tell us about creativity, resistance, and the interplay of power and pleasure in 1970s Nigeria?
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
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.
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.
Delegates to 'Global Africa' at Oxford University write about how Zionists and their apologists target the academy.
The question of who belongs in South Africa, stains any project that aims to build a more equal and inclusive society.
The truth of our global age is that autochthony, nativism, or heritage no longer define us exclusively. So, solidarity based on phenotype or heritage is dangerous.
Nostalgia for Gaddafi reflects a depressing understanding of African politics which rules that a dictator is better than a chaotic political void.
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
Apartheid's prisons tolerated 'National Geographic; For Nelson Mandela, who knew better, it was porn.
Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture