Achille Mbembe lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of three books published in French, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun(1920-1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie (1996).
"Chillingly realistic yet also poetic, On the Postcolony
offers the reader a brilliant and visionary tour of postcolonial
Africa. . . . Packed with illuminating insights and innovative
theoretical approaches to familiar problems, this work not only
redraws the boundaries of African studies and postcolonial studies,
but also offers a significant contribution to political theory and
philosophy." * International Journal of African Historical Studies
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"Brilliantly written." * International Affairs *
"Mbembe is an essayist of fitful brilliance." * African Affairs
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"Together, the essays demonstrate the consistent evolution of
Mbembe's innovative and unique postcolonial theory. . . . Fueled by
his signature notion of the political imaginary, Mbembe sculpts a
new language for Africa, one liberated from the confines of the
Western "universalist" scholarly tradition." * Canadian Journal of
African Studies *
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