Africa Is A Country
My essay on Prof Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon and Mbembe’s ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (Duke UP, 2017) for Africa Is A Country.
My essay on Prof Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon and Mbembe’s ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (Duke UP, 2017) for Africa Is A Country.
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.)
My new essay for Africa Is A Country on ‘decolonization debates’ in Norway.
My essay on Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic twenty-five years on for the Norwegian anti-racist magazine Samora 2/2018 is now online.
My review of University of Iceland Prof Gisli Palsson’s fine and fascinating ‘The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan’ (University of Chicago Press, 2016) is out now from American Ethnologist (AE).
Happy to announce the publication of a commissioned essay on Norway’s July 22 2011 right-wing extremist terrorist attacks and the lessons which Norway has failed to learn in the aftermath, courtesy of the Duke University Press/World Policy Institute’s World Policy Journal (WPJ).
I have a chapter on ‘The New Nationalism And Its Relationship To Islam’ in this new edited volume by Profs John Erik Fossum, Birte Siim and Riva Kastoryano out now with Palgrave Macmillan.
My New essay about Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic: Modernity And Double Consciousness twenty-five years on for Africa Is A Country.