Category Archives: Africa

Morgenbladet

By SindreDecember 5, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Apartheid, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Populism, Postcolonialism, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, The Black Atlantic, Tolerance, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, Xenophobia

My op-ed for Morgenbladet, published in connection with Prof Achille Mbembe’s first ever visit to Norway and the Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen on Dec 1 2018.

Antirasistisk.no

By SindreOctober 26, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Cameroon, Cultural racism, Decolonization, History, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, Xenophobia

A short essay of mine on the life and work of one of the world’s leading postcolonial intellectuals, Prof Achille Mbembe (b. 1957 – in Cameroon) of Wits and Harvard University, ahead of his first ever visit to Norway (Universitetets Aula, Bergen, Dec 1 and House of Literature, Oslo, Dec 2 2018.)