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Afropessimism, Afrofuturism and Afropolitanism

Anders Dunk
Review written by Anders Dunker
Brutalism
Forfatter: Achille Mbembe
Forlag: Duke University Press (USA)
AFRICA / Disruption opens up for the capitalists a new display of power and new income: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. The author Achille Mbembe's horizon is always the widest possible – the cosmic, earth-historical and planetary. Africa, despite all harrowing problems, is being called forth as a vibrant world center that still has powers in reserve, a teeming wildlife and a wealth of cultures.




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Anders Dunk
Anders Dunker
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