Patrick Boucheron and Achille Mbembe in conversation, with Emmanuel Laurentin chairing, at the 2016 installment of La Nuit des Idées in Paris.

Achillle Mbembe has spoken to the following newspapers, radio stations, and other media outlets recently:

TV5 Monde

Le Point Afrique

France Culture

An extract from Maxim Bolt's new book Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence (Oxford University Press/Wits University Press) published in The Conversation: Africa.

Issue 19 of PEN America, Hauntings, will be made available soon. A collection of short stories, memoir, essays, photographs, and art, this edition of the journal is drawn partly from a panel chaired by Shireen Hassim at the PEN Global Voices Festival held in New York in 2015.

Radical History Review: Calls for Proposals

The Global South: Histories, Politics, Maps
Issue number 131 (May 2018)
Abstract Deadline: September 1, 2016
Issue editors: Pamila Gupta, Christopher J. Lee, Marissa Moorman, and Sandhya Shukla

Call for Applications for NRF Freestanding, Innovation and Scarce Skills Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2017 

The National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) are pleased to announce the call for scholarship applications for 2017 in the following categories: 

Achille Mbembe's recent keynote at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, titled 'Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Viscerality.'

A review of our recent event 'Delirium' featuring Victoria Hume, Chris Letcher, and Quinta.

Vol. 10 of the Johannesburg Salon is available.