Tag Archives: Achille Mbembe

Presenting Chimurenga Chronic New Cartographies

April 14, 2015 by News
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On Thursday, the 23rd of April 2015, Chimurenga presents the latest issue of the Chronic. Join us for a conversation with Ntone Edjabe (Chimurenga), Billy Kahora (Kwani), Achille Mbembe (Wits), and artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Francis Burger. Since its launch in 2011, every edition of The Chronic has engaged with this question: when will […]

Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation

December 25, 2010 by Articles

by Achille Mbembe (translated by Karen Press) Here we are in 2010, fifty years after decolonisation. Is there anything at all to commemorate, or should one on the contrary start all over again? Here restoration of authoritarian rule, there administrative multi-partyism, elsewhere minimal, easily reversible advances, and just about everywhere, extremely elevated levels of social […]