The Chronic Sketches “A New Cartography”
…time. First, in an interview with Bregtje van der Haak, Achille Mbembe declares that, “the densification
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The worst habits of American journalism
An open letter addressed to Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of the American TV news program, 60 Minutes, over its reporting of Africa and Africans.
Which Art History in Africa?
As an art writer working in Africa, I have no available model to craft an entire practice of writing books on contemporary art in Uganda.
The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France's former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
Pogbacité
Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?
The US and France backs Cameroon’s reign of terror
When will the state-sanctioned violence in Cameroon be sufficient to cause Western nations to stop supporting President Paul Biya and his military?
The global ways of white supremacy
White supremacy always relies on an international interdependence as Trump's support for white extremists in South Africa shows.
Decolonizing the academy
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
Meditations on Paul Biya’s Reelection in Cameroon
The Biya regime's grip on power has been exposed more than ever before. It is revolting to watch.
The African Union passport and dreams of democratic mobility
On mobility, democracy and making a decolonized future for Africa.
Why I’ll keep talking to South Africans about race
While Nigeria's class divide is not between rich whites and poor blacks, it still has a lot in common with postapartheid South Africa.
Ignore and rule
What do Europeans do when they hear the war waged by the government of Ethiopia has killed more people than the war in Ukraine?
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 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.
When the ‘President of the rich’ met the ‘Black President’
What does Emmanuel Macron's visit to Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti's legacy in Nigeria.
The gentrification of African studies
Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.