Achille Mbembé (jan 1, 1957 – 17h 2min, jun 25, 2025 y)

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About:
- Camaroonian, PhD (history) at Sorbonne and has taught at Columbia, Yale, UC Berkeley, Harvard, U Penn, and Duke, & is currently at the U of Witwatersrand in South Africa
- heavily influenced by Franz Fanon and Michel Foucault
- philosopher, historian, and political theorist known for his work on postcolonialism, African studies, politics, and race theory

Major Works
- On the Postcolony (2001)
- Necropolitics (2003, essay; expanded to a book in 2019)
- Critique of Black Reason (2013; English translation in 2017)
- "The Politics of Enmity" (2016, essay)

Contributions
- Concept of Necropolitics
- Political Anthropology of Enmity and Exclusion

Critiques
- the complexity of his prose makes it difficult for non-specialists to engage with his theories
- lack of attention to gender, overemphasis on colonial histories, lack of practical solutions

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