Mbembe links Jean-Luc Nancy’s notions of dis-enclosure to the decolonisation process and advocates for the ‘complexity and plurality of reality’, an alternative ontology and way of understanding and being in the world. His view involves the coloniser and colonised taking responsibility for creating a new understanding. Achille Mbembe conceives of decolonization in terms of opening up the world and reclaiming one’s humanity and place in this world.
About Achille Mbembe
Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe is Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is one of the most read and cited scholars from the African continent and his pioneering research in African history, postcolonial studies, humanities, and social science for over four decades. Both as an academic and public intellectual, he is known for bridging existing thinking on colonialism and decolonisation with pressing topics like contemporary migration regimes, global citizenship, restitution and reparation, technology, climate change and planetary futures.
