Background information
On this page you will find an overview of the core principles and ideas of Achille Mbembe (Cameroon, 1957), which will help you approach the Achille Mbembe Challenge with greater insight and depth. Understanding his thinking will help you make better connections and participate more effectively in the tasks.
On Archille Mbembe
- Read: Achille Mbembe, ‘The Universal Right to Breathe’ (Critical Inquiry, Winter 2021, translation Carolyn Shread)
- Watch: Achille Mbembe on climate and the last chance to save the planet (6:30 minutes)
- Watch: GreatBookProf explains the meaning of ‘necropolitics’ (35 minutes)
- Watch: Achille Mbembe in VPRO-programTegenlicht ‘How Africa can become a powerblock’ (2022)
On climate and resistance
- Read and watch: Director Mauritshuis: ‘Please don’t touch our stuff’
- Watch: Extinction Rebellion blocks Passage Rijksmuseum
- Watch: Extinction Rebellion blocks highway
- Watch: Climate activits throw paint at Monet canvas
On rehabilitation of heritage
- Watch: Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza is ‘steeling’ statue of Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal (2.20 minutes)
- Watch: Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza ‘Reclaiming art from Western musea’
- Read: Provenance research Congo collection of museum in Antwerp
- Read: Museum keeps skulls after Papua New Guinea rejects offer
- Read: Activists demand return of stolen artefacts
On digital colonisation
Watch: BBC Global: What is Digital Colonialism? (2021, 5.20 minutes)
Watch: TEDx: Digital Colonialism and My Human Rights (2019, 14.31 minutes)
Watch: Aljazeera: Is Big Tech Colonizing the Internet? (2020, 18.23 minutes)
Watch: Alice Watson over ‘Lo-TEK’, technology inspired by tradional ecological knowledge
Watch: Website about Lo-Tek
Information on the challenge
Click here for more information on the competition itself and how to register