Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony, he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his...