1. Achille Mbembe is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
16 Facts About Achille Mbembe
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Achille Mbembe has held appointments at Columbia University in New York, Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Duke University and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa in Dakar, Senegal.
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Achille Mbembe was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001, and a visiting professor at Yale University in 2003.
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Achille Mbembe was a research professor in history and politics at Harvard University's W E B Du Bois Research Institute.
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In 2020 Achille Mbembe delivered the presidential lecture in the Humanities at Stanford University.
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Achille Mbembe has written extensively on African history and politics, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun.
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Achille Mbembe has an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation.
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On March 14,2024, Achille Mbembe was awarded the 2024 Holberg Prize for arts and letters, humanities, law and theology.
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Achille Mbembe is a contributing editor to the scholarly journal Public Culture.
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Achille Mbembe has examined Johannesburg as a metropolitan city and the work of Frantz Fanon.
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Achille Mbembe denounces the lack of democracy in Africa, and calls for the end of the CFA franc, and of French military bases in Africa, he highlights the loss of French influence in Africa.
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In early 2020, the Federal Commissioner for Jewish Life and the fight against antisemitism, Felix Klein, called for the cancellation of a keynote address by Achille Mbembe scheduled to be delivered on 14 August that summer at the Ruhrtriennale.
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Achille Mbembe claimed Mbembe had "relativised the Holocaust and denied Israel's right to exist".
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The false evidence for this charge was based on comments Achille Mbembe made in two books where he drew parallels between the separatist policies deployed in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and South Africa under Apartheid.
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Achille Mbembe was supported by groups of Israeli and Jewish academics, including some prominent German Holocaust scholars.
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In 2018, Achille Mbembe was involved in the academic boycott of Israeli professor, Shifra Sagy.