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    Brutalism

    Achille Mbembe

    Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is…

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    Achille Mbembe

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    Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within…

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    Achille Mbembe

    Oliver Coates

    Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within…

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    Achille Mbembe

    Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is…

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    The Boy Who Loved to Play

    Pauline Katufwa Owusu-Akyeampong

    Mutale loves to play soccer, so much that he doesn't care about anything else. When the village comes together to help someone on their farm, Mutale decides to prank everyone…

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    A Grammar of Mbembe

    Doris Richter

    This book is a description of the present-day structures and diachronic developments of a so far little studied Jukunoid language spoken in the borderland of Nigeria and Cameroon.

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    MOKELE-MBEMBE

    Rick Emmer

    Examines the evidence for and against the existence of the modern-day dinonsaur, Mokele-mbembe, said to live in the waters of Africa’s Congo Basin rainforest.

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    Necropolitics

    Achille Mbembe

    Achille Mbembe theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world-one plagued by inequality, militarization, enmity, and a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces-and calls for a radical revision of humanism…

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    On Private Indirect Government

    Achille Mbembe

    Two hypothesis form the basis of this study. First, that development in African countries follows many models, on many time-scales; and secondly that private indirect government is taking the place…

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    Necropolitics

    Achille Mbembe

    Achille Mbembe theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world-one plagued by inequality, militarization, enmity, and a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces-and calls for a radical revision of humanism…

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    On the Postcolony

    Achille Mbembe

    A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena…

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    Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization

    Achille Mbembe

    Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of…

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    To Write the Africa World

    A Mbembe

    Papers from the first Ateliers de la Pensaee, October 28-31, 2016, Dakar and Saint-Louis Senegal.

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    To Write the Africa World

    A Mbembe

    Papers from the first Ateliers de la Pensaee, October 28-31, 2016, Dakar and Saint-Louis Senegal.

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    The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings

    A Mbembe

    As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical displacement: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal…

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    The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings

    A Mbembe

    As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical displacement: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal…

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    Mokele-Mbembe: Mystery Beast of the Congo Basin

    William J Gibbons

    Explorer, cryptozoologist, and creationist Bill Gibbons has traveled to remote corners of the world in search of strange and unknown creatures. But Bill’s heart is in Africa, where monstrous dinosaur-like…

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    Critique of Black Reason

    Achille Mbembe

    Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the…

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    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

    Sarah Nuttall,Achille Mbembe

    Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. This work reassesses classic theories of metropolitan modernity as it explores the experience of ‘citiness’ and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. This work includes…

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    Critique of Black Reason

    Achille Mbembe

    Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the…

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    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

    Attempts to overturn perceptions that frame Africa as an object apart from the rest of the world

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    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

    Sarah Nuttall,Achille Mbembe

    Contains essays that include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in Johannesburg, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of…

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    Drums Along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur

    Rory Nugent

    Originally published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin.

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    Drums and Dragons: A Field Guide to Mokele-mbembe and Other Living Dinosaurs in Africa

    Ryan J Lyons

    Legends of living dinosaurs in Africa have inspired the fiction of writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but amateur monster hunter Walter Spink takes these tales of African dragons…

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    Politik zwischen Leben und Tod. Der Begriff der Biopolitik bei Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben und Achille Mbembe

    Julia Sterzer

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Allgemeines und Grundlagen, Note: 1,3, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Gesellschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Der Begriff der Biopolitik in aktuellen Gesellschaftstheorien, Sprache…

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    Decolonisation in Universities: The politics of knowledge

    Jonathan D. Jansen,Achille Mbembe,Andre Keet,Brenda Schmahmann

    Shortly after the statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. What exactly is decolonisation? This book brings…

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    Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France

    In 2005, following the death of two youths of African origin, France erupted in a wave of violent protest. More than 10,000 automobiles were burned or stoned, hundreds of public…

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    We Write What We Like: Celebrating Steve Biko

    Darryl Accone,Zithulele Cindi,Saths Cooper,Duncan Innes,Jonathan D Jansen

    Steve Biko, father of the black consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only 30 years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the…

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