The universal right to breathe
Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?
7 Article(s) by:
Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is a philosopher, political scientist, and public intellectual. He lives in Johannesburg.
The idea of a borderless world
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
The State of South African Political Life
Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
The Year of Frantz Fanon
What gives Fanon's thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.
Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.