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Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2022

Wale Adebanwi  and
Rogers Orock
Wale Adebanwi*
Affiliation:
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Rogers Orock
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’
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Africa , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 42 - 48
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