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.
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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.
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2018
Proud to be presenting in a panel on ‘Imagining Islamic Extremism’, organized by John Dulin of Stanford University at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Jose, California, later this week, Sat Nov 17 2018.
Antirasistisk.no
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.)
Minotenk.no
Proud to have been part of a civil-society commission tasked with developing a report on the disturbingly high levels of anti-Muslim attitudes in Norway for the think-thank Minotenk.
Africa Is A Country
My new essay for Africa Is A Country on ‘decolonization debates’ in Norway.
Dagsavisen
Joint op-ed on the hate speech v free speech conundrum in Norway as it relates to the far-right, racist and antisemitic party outfit Alliansen in Dagsavisen 31.08.2018.
Samora Magazine
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.
American Ethnologist (AE)
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).