African universities were once considered vital tools for nation building and destroying them risks reversing the developmental gains we have made.
The philosopher’s classic 2001 work, ‘On the Postcolony’, has been republished in an African edition that features a brand-new preface by him.
South Africa today suffers a confusion between the rule of the people, the rule of law and the rule of property.
The EFF is a metaphor for the structural incompleteness of SA’s democracy.
The ANC has let the most reactionary sectors of white society off the hook while chasing away those progressive and antiracist whites.
An odious nostalgia is clearly present when the state protects the market with brutal force, writes Achille Mbembe.
After a decade of self-congratulation, SA is coming to a triple realisation that is exacting a heavy toll on its psyche, writes Achille Mbembe.
New forms of social apartheid and structural destitution have replaced the old colonial divisions, writes <b>Achille Mbembe</b>.
A high-stakes diplomatic poker game is unfolding between South Africa and France. Last month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Senegal and Gabon, two former French colonies, where some of the 11 000 troops France has garrisoned across the continent are still visible almost 50 years after independence.
It is no exaggeration to say that the spectre of St Augustine hung residually over the recent Sex and Secrecy conference held at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.