Achille Mbembe

This is an edited extract from the book Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Sobukwe

Staff and students argue it is unethical for university to profit from an industry that damages the planet and distorts science

Kwaito and house music have broadened the scope of struggle and stretched the definition of freedom

In their new book, photojournalists Alon Skuy and James Oatway situate their often harrowing images among contextual writing

Frank B Wilderson discusses ‘Afropessimism’, his memoir that analyses structural violence

The guitarist is growing into his groove, with a new concept album launching soon

Two art exhibitions reveal the intimate relationship between one of South Africa’s great modernists and the city of his life

In sorrow over the way migrants are treated in South Africa, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance

Security now matters more than freedom in the increased ‘bordernisation’ of Europe which renders those seeking refuge subhuman and vulnerable

The divergence of democracy and capital will defy reason and politics will become brutal survivalism.

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>.