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Achille Mbembe Quotes

born 1957 Cameroon

Achille Mbembe (born 1957), is a Cameroonian philosopher, political theorist, and public intellectual.

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The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.

We are entering an era in which humanity itself is becoming the central question of politics.

The name 'Africa' evokes a multiplicity of places, experiences, and histories rather than a single reality.

The colony is not merely a place; it is also a peculiar system of signs, a particular way of fabricating reality.

Ultimately, the work of memory consists in preserving that which is worth preserving while remaining open to the future.

To live under colonial occupation is to experience a permanent state of injury.

The universal belongs to all of us, but none of us can claim exclusive ownership of it.

The time of the world can no longer be conceived as a line. It is increasingly experienced as a concatenation of multiple temporalities.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Achille Mbembe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.