Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe
Born1957 (age 66–67)
NationalityCameroonian
SpouseSarah Nuttall
AwardsGeschwister-Scholl-Preis
Academic background
Alma materSorbonne
Instituts d'études politiques
InfluencesJean-Marc Ela, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Bernard Stiegler, Hannah Arendt
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Duke University
Main interestshistory, political science
Notable ideasNecropolitics

Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe (/əmˈbɛmb/; born 1957), is a Cameroonian historian, political theorist, and public intellectual who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.[1][2]

  1. ^ Achille Mbembe to deliver a second "Thinking Africa" Public Lecture Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Rhodes University, 5 July 2012
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WISER Staff Profile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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