Achille Mbembe

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Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon in 1957. He obtained his Ph. D. in History at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1989. He subsequently obtained a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in the same city. As one of the most sought-after postcolonial theorists of today, he has spent time working at Columbia University, New York, Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University and Institute for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) in Dakar, Senegal. He is currently a member of the staff at WISER institute in Johannesburg, South Africa. His main topics are African history and politics and social science.

Works

  • 1985 Les Jeunes et l'ordre politique en Afrique noire.
  • 1996 La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun, 1920-1960 : histoire des usages de la raison en colonie.
  • 2000 De la postcolonie, essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine. (English edition "On the Postcolony", 2001. Second revised french edition, 2005.)


Presentation at WISER-institute http://wiserweb.wits.ac.za/home%20-%20staff.htm#2

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