Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Margitte - GoodreadsA very difficult read since it is written in a academic, philosophical style, yet describes the 'Neo Africa' post Colonialism in much detail and how the nepotism, dictatorships and mal administrations ... Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Serena - GoodreadsWow. Just, wow. Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Nick - GoodreadsOverall, Mbembe's book is invaluable for effectively connecting colonial/post-colonial representations of Africa with brutal exercise of multi-modal power (see Allen, Lost Geographies of Power) in ... Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Gise - GoodreadsAmazing. But very complicated to read. It is full of thick academia language. HArd to read but once you get through it, it has so much to say about the effects of colonialism and post colonialism in Africa. Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Shoshone - GoodreadsIf it weren't for this site I might go on feeling like I'm the only person who's read this book. I think it's out of print now in the States and really difficult to get ahold of, except through the ... Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Damien - GoodreadsMbembe's treatise on the postcolony offers imaginative outlines and frameworks for thinking and writing about political power in Africa. Acknowledging that it has historically been very difficult to ... Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Phạm - GoodreadsAbsolutely amazing theory!!! (on colonization and the postcolony). Learn so much every time I come back to this book! Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Christine Goding - GoodreadsThis was one of the best books I have ever read. Challenging, insightful, and still current, I recommend it to everyone. Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Upik - GoodreadsAs much as I try to buldoze through the verbiage of this book, I couldn't finish it. It took me days and many cups of strong coffee with lots of sweetened condensed milk to go through just three ... Read full review
Review: On the Postcolony
User Review - Myriam - GoodreadsA truly novel, insightful conceptualizing of the "postcolony" by an African/French scholar. Some of the essays take after Fanon or Derrida but all take for granted the need to go beyond Hegelian ... Read full review
