Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe is Director of the Innovation Foundation for Democracy, Johannesburg (South Africa) and Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is author of Brutalism, Necropolitics, and Critique of Black Reason and coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, all published by Duke University Press.