Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon in 1957. He obtained his Ph.D. in History at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1989. He subsequently obtained a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in the same city. As one of the most sought-after postcolonial theorists of today, he has spent time working at Columbia University, New York, Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., University of Pennsylvania, University of California Berkeley, Yale University, Duke University and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) in Dakar, Senegal.