Blogs

Achille Mbembe will participate in and deliver the keynote lecture at the conference 'African Migration in Comparative Perspective' Duke University. See here for the conference programme.

An interview with Achille Mbembe in Der Spiegel (in German and subscribers-only).

Achille Mbembe argues that Africa needs a humane migration policies, for the Mail and Guardian.

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:

Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)’s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.

Achille Mbembe will take part in the first Night of Ideas and Philosophy to be held in New York. The event is organised by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Achille presents 'What is the Future of Democracy?' at 7pm in the Brooklyn Central Library on 28 January 2017.

An English edition of Achille Mbembe's Critique de la raison negre will be published by Duke University Press in 2017. Critique of Black Reason was translated by Laurent Dubois.

Africa's Great Civilizations - a new television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - will be aired by PBS in the United States in February 2017. Hlonipha Mokoena is featured in its first trailer.

Achille Mbembe published 'The Age of Humanism is Ending' in the Mail and Guardian in December 2016. Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee and Anil Persaud have written a response to that article.