Mbembe on the postcolony7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Social theory has failed also to account for time as lived, not synchronically or diachronically, but in its multiplicity and simultaneities, its presence and absences, beyond the lazy categories of permanence and change beloved of so many historians. ![]() For what Africa as a concept calls fundamentally into question is the manner in which social theory has hitherto reflected on the problem (observable also elsewhere) of the collapse of worlds, their fluctuations and tremblings, their about-turns and disguises, their silences and murmurings. Africanism), is any sign of radical questioning. Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2022 Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock Article Metrics Get access Rights & Permissions Abstract An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. But what is missing, far from the dead ends, random observations, and false dilemmas (Afrocentrism vs. Terrible movements, laws that underpin and organize tragedy and genocide, gods that present themselves in the guise of death and destitution, monsters lying in wait, corpses coming and going on the tide, infernal powers, threats of all sorts, abandonments, events without response, monstrous couplings, blind waves, impossible paths, terrible forces that every day tear human beings, animals, plants, and things from their sphere of life and condemn them to death: all these are present. ![]()
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