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#1 Submitted by m.o.... on March 19, 2024 - 3:51pm

Well done Prof Mbembe!

Africa ‘is a laboratory for the world’, says Holberg prizewinner

Cameroonian historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe says continent’s universities need more funding, and better global partnerships

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