<p>Professor Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian-born scholar and an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, is the first African to be awarded the Holberg Prize – a major international prize that goes annually to “an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology”, according to the prize’s secretariat. The prize, in monetary [&#8230;]</p>
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Achille Mbembe becomes Africa’s first Holberg Prize laureate

Achille Mbembe is undoubtedly a highly worthy recipient of the 2024 Holberg Prize,” added Krieger.
“The Holberg Prize is named after the Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg, who excelled in all the disciplines covered by the award.
For instance, in literature, we have had a few Nobel Prizes, (Wole) Soyinka (Nigeria, 1986), (Nadine) Gordimer (South Africa, 1991), (JM) Coetzee (South Africa, 2003), and others.
We were building one of the many epicentres of global knowledge as disseminated [also] in northern centres and [other] parts of the Global South.
Unfortunately, in South Africa, as I speak, it does not bode well for our own experience here in South Africa into the continent.