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Ketil Fred Hansen
Review written by Ketil Fred Hansen
African Political Thought. An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom
Forfatter: Stephen Chan
Forlag: Hurst, (Storbritannia)
INTELLECTUAL / Inspired both by Bakhtin and Foucault, Stephen Chan presents Achille Mbembe's analyzes of the African state in an understandable way. But let's mention what the book leaves out.




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Ketil Fred Hansen
Ketil Fred Hansen
Hansen is a professor of social sciences at UiS and a regular reviewer at Ny Tid.

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