Engaging Mbembe

Over the course of a career spanning forty years, the Cameroonian-born political scientist, historian, and philosopher Achille Mbembe has become the most widely read and cited African intellectual of our times. In this edited volume, Sindre Bangstad and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen invite distinguished and emergent scholars from Africa and the West to engage critically with Mbembe’s body of work. Drawing from the thinkers in a continuous constructive and generative dialogue with Mbembe's scholarship and wider Black Atlantic intellectual traditions, the contributors demonstrate the impacts and influence of Mbembe's contributions across postcolonial, decolonial, and political thought. Including a foreword by Arjun Appadurai, this collection examines Mbembe’s refusal to be categorized and his regenerative approach to humanity to better understand the legacy of his intellectual work.