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,
“... repression of opposition activists. (He plays up his past as a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan Bush War to bolster his masculinist image.) Since the introduction of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in 2009, Ugandan public discourse has been rife with graphic descriptions of queer sex. Nyanzi’s vulgar (and very funny) interventions on social media ... ”