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Achille Mbembe
was born in Cameroon in 1957. He is Professor of History and Political Science at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the staff at WISER institute in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mbembe has written extensively on African history and politics, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (Karthala, 1996) and De la postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine (Karthala, 2000; English edition: On the Postcolony, University of California Press, 2001).Eurozine Articles
What is postcolonial thinking?
Postcolonial thinking developed in a transnational, eclectic vein from the very start, says theorist Achille Mbembe. This enabled it to combine the anti-imperialist tradition with the fledgling subaltern studies and a specific take on globalization. [Hungarian version added] [more]
17.12.2008
Africa: Joining here with elsewhere
Africa's history is one of movement. It is connected with an "Afropolitanism" that has transcended rigid African nationalism through curiosity for the foreign and openness to hybridity. [more]
23.05.2006
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