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Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound
“Dislocation” is how Congolese rumba historians describe the incessant splinterings that are […]
THE IDEA OF A BORDERLESS WORLD
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and […]
A master of bling with feline style
Writing just after the 2011 Africa Cup of Nations, Achille Mbembe* looks […]
The Second German Chronic is Here
The second German-language edition of the Chronic takes up the theme of new […]
Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds
By Chronic on 3 September 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda
by Achille Mbembe; translated by Dominique Malaquais
The Internet is Afropolitan
Achille Mbembe discusses the history and horizon of digital communication and identity […]
Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation
by Achille Mbembe (translated by Karen Press) Here we are in 2010, fifty […]
Name Death & Text
Achille Mbembe unpicks the assassination, disfigurement, and attempted degrading of Ruben Um Nyobè. Ruben Um […]
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
« Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée ». Tel est le titre du dernier livre d’Achille Mbembe qui paraît aux Éditions La Découverte à Paris le 14 octobre. J’ai eu le privilège de lire de manière attentive cet ouvrage riche et très documenté écrit en mémoire de Frantz Fanon et Jean-Marc Éla, deux « penseurs du devenir illimité ».
Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation
In the half-century to come, one aspect of the role of intellectuals, cultural practitioners and African civil society will be to help in articulating a concept of democracy that takes the current struggles as a point of departure, and in addition to ‘internationalise’ the question of African democratisation
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
By Chimurenga on 8 December 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Norbert N. Ouendji interviews Achille Mbembe before Afropolitanism (circa 2010) « Sortir de […]
The Aesthetics Of Vulgarity
(With Thanks To Achille Mbembe)