The Pessimist’s Optimist
Kevin Okoth: Beyond the Postcolony, 10 July 2025
Brutalism
by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran.
Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024,978 1 4780 2558 0 Show More
by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran.
Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024,
“... Today, Cameroon is a member of both the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Commonwealth; English and French are both official languages. But anglophone separatists claim that the government in Yaoundé represents only the interests of francophone Cameroonians. In 2017 the demand for their own state escalated into an armed conflict which ... ”