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“... Achille Mbembe’s​ On the Postcolony, first published in French in 2000, changed the direction of postcolonial studies. Since then, he has gained a loyal readership across the political spectrum (his admirers include Emmanuel Macron and Judith Butler), and his concepts – the postcolony, necropolitics, Afropolitanism and more – crop up everywhere from the Venice Biennale to newspapers and advertising briefs ...”

“... and Central African Republic.Last S​eptember, the Cameroonian political theorist and historian Achille Mbembe published an analysis of the situation in former French colonies. He took ‘Pan-Africanist’ to be a misdescription of an ‘imagined emotional community’ in West Africa and other parts of the continent. What was gaining ground, he ...”

“... and recognition are necessary steps towards any major change. As the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe reminds us, we can aim for ‘the beginnings of a reparation through recognition, the first hint of the constitution of a ...”

“... life; the willingness to embrace mass death and devastating environmental destruction. As Achille Mbembe writes, ‘in its dank underbelly, modernity has been an interminable war on life.’ These dates also augured a new future: a massive increase in the rate of resource extraction and the beginning of the nuclear age of weaponry and energy ...”

“... exclusively sovereign. With the idea of a demographics of the condemned, we enter the terrain that Achille Mbembe has called ‘necropolitics’. That security companies have taken over the public administration of prisons in the US, the UK and elsewhere exposes the link between who is owned, who is put out of play, whose unpayable economic or social debt ...”

“... wholly against the grain, that towards the end of the conference the philosopher and activist Achille Mbembe managed to talk of beauty. He was not being sentimental. ‘The Trauma of the World and the World as Trauma’ was the title of his paper. Mincing no words, he spoke of the ‘traumatogenic’ institutions of capitalism and liberal ...”