Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe | |
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Mbembe in 2015 | |
| Born | Joseph-Achille Mbembe July 27, 1957 |
| Spouse | Sarah Nuttall |
| Awards | Geschwister-Scholl-Preis |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne Instituts d'études politiques |
| Influences | Jean-Marc Ela, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Bernard Stiegler, Hannah Arendt |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of the Witwatersrand, Duke University |
| Main interests | History, political science |
| Notable ideas | Necropolitics |
Joseph-Achille Mbembe (/əmˈbɛmbeɪ/; born 1957), is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.