Achille Mbembe received the 2024 Holberg Prize for his groundbreaking research in African history and politics, and related fields.

Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand.

Interviewer: Kari Jegerstedt, associate professor of gender studies in the humanities and Head of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen.

The interview was recorded on 3rd June, 2024, during the Holberg Week in Bergen.

For more information and other video productions: See holbergprize.org.