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About Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Articles by Achille Mbembe

Wednesday 4th July

Whiteness without apartheid: the limits of racial freedom

Achille Mbembe, 4 July 2007
A transformation project that moves beyond racial categories can become the vehicle of a deeper liberation
Wednesday 14th June

South Africa's second coming: the Nongqawuse syndrome

Achille Mbembe, 14 June 2006
A dozen years after apartheid ended, a dangerous mix of populism, nativism and millenarian thinking is inviting South Africans to commit political suicide, writes Achille Mbembe.
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