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.

Medical humanities at WiSER in collaboration with the Wits School of Arts, and the Donald Gordon Medical Centre present 'Situations', an exhibition on the theme of 'transplantation' by Wits University students. The exhibition will run from 3 to 12 November 2016.

Location: The Point of Order, Noswall Hall (corner of Bertha and Stiemans Streets).

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 3-5pm; Saturday, 10am-12pm.

Exhibition opening: 3 November, 6pm.