Philosopher

Achille Mbembe

Postcolonial theorist — University of the Witwatersrand

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg · Cameroon / South Africa · d. 1957

The Cameroonian thinker who studies postcolonial power and the concept of 'necropolitics'. The first African scholar to win the Holberg Prize, in 2024.

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Life: b. 1957 — living
Country: Cameroon / South Africa
Period: Contemporary
School: Postcolonialism
Affiliation: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Areas: Political philosophy, Postcolonial theory, History, African studies
Major works: On the Postcolony (2000)
Necropolitics (2003/2019)
Critique of Black Reason (2013)
Out of the Dark Night (2021)
Key concepts: Necropolitics, The postcolony, Black reason, Decolonial thought
Sources: Holberg Prize — Achille Mbembe

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