Achille Mbembe
Joseph-Achille Mbembe is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
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- Born in
- Cameroon
- Educated at
- Sciences PoUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Awards
- 🏆 Q137053477🏆 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis🏆 Ernst Bloch Award🏆 Holberg International Memorial Prize🏆 Albertus-Magnus professorate
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
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1957
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