Morgenbladet
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.
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.
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.
It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing – race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy – serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extract organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. […]