PHILOSOPHER

Achille Mbembe

1957 - Today

Photo of Achille Mbembe

Icon of person Achille Mbembe

Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe (; born 1957), is a Cameroonian historian, political theorist, and public intellectual who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Achille Mbembe has received more than 423,817 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Achille Mbembe is the 986th most popular philosopher (up from 999th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Cameroon and the most popular Cameroonian Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Achille Mbembes by language

Over the past year Achille Mbembe has had the most page views in the with 57,208 views, followed by French (27,064), and Portuguese (20,792). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Slovenian (249.40%), Dutch (151.35%), and Haitian (102.60%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Achille Mbembe ranks 986 out of 1,267. Before him are Persaeus, Anna Kingsford, Ivan Aksakov, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, J. M. E. McTaggart, and Wei Yuan. After him are Ernst Tugendhat, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dimitri Kitsikis, Athenodorus Cananites, Abdolkarim Soroush, and Harry Frankfurt.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Achille Mbembe ranks 158. Before him are Šefik Džaferović, Tsai Ming-liang, John T. Dunlap, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, and Abu Ali al-Anbari. After him are Amanda Plummer, Jakob Nielsen, Bryan Robson, Simon Phillips, Ruy Ramos, and Cécilia Attias.

Others Born in 1957

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Cameroon

Among people born in Cameroon, Achille Mbembe ranks 12 out of 156. Before him are Issa Hayatou (1946), Manu Dibango (1933), Thomas N'Kono (1956), André Onana (1996), Patrick M'Boma (1970), and Marc-Vivien Foé (1975). After him are Joseph-Antoine Bell (1954), Rigobert Song (1976), Joseph Ngute (1954), Samuel Umtiti (1993), Mongo Beti (1932), and Vincent Aboubakar (1992).

Others born in Cameroon

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Cameroon

Among philosophers born in Cameroon, Achille Mbembe ranks 1. 

Cameroonian born Philosophers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous