Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is a research professor in History and Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also the director of the Innovation Foundation for Democracy. He is the author of many books, including On the Postcolony, Critique of Black Reason, Out of the Dark Night, Necropolitics and Brutalism. His latest book, La communauté terrestre, was published in March in Paris. Achille Mbembe is the winner of various international awards and his work has been translated in 16 languages.
Achille Mbembe: "Om die demokrasie aan die hand van die lewende te heruitvind" (uit die Frans vertaal deur Johann Rossouw)
2023-08-16"Mense was nog altyd ’n bietjie meer as bloot mens. Dieselfde geld objekte wat nog altyd ’n bietjie meer as bloot werktuie was. Dit is wat die animistiese Afrika-denke ons van altyd af leer."
Interview: The end of public universities in South Africa?
2016-10-04"The drama we are seeing is that we are asking the university to do things it was never meant to do. I mean welfare is the domain of the state, it is not the domain of the university. We can’t be asking the university to do things it was not designed to do."
University Seminar 2016: Achille Mbembe on the new politics of the South African student
2016-01-21"The students ... It’s a generation of people who are more and more convinced that they have been sold a lie ... And they are determined to put on the table some of the questions we have put under the carpet for a long time. All those difficult issues we have not tackled enough. And that shift, that cultural shift it seems to me is much more important than anything else, and it signals a new form of politics, at least on campuses."