# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/achille-mbembe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:56.571Z

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name: "Achille Mbembe"
slug: "achille-mbembe"
description: "Joseph-Achille Mbembe is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory."
tagline: "Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist (born 1957)"
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birthDate: "1957-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump