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PHILOSOPHER

Achille Mbembe

1957 - Today

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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 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Achille Mbembe is the 999th most popular philosopher (down from 924th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Cameroon (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Cameroonian Philosopher.

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  • 19

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  • 4.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Achille Mbembe ranks 999 out of 1,081Before him are Merab Mamardashvili, Colotes, Barrington Moore Jr., Robert Spaemann, Derek Prince, and Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. After him are Patricia Churchland, Wilhelm Gesenius, Hector Boece, Tariq Ramadan, Rüdiger Safranski, and Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Achille Mbembe ranks 169Before him are Robert Sapolsky, Christian Berkel, Tony Abbott, Steve Davis, Mona Simpson, and Bryan Robson. After him are Miquel Barceló, Genie, Reinaldo Rueda, Cécilia Attias, Joanna Pacuła, and Miguel Ángel Lotina.

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In Cameroon

Among people born in Cameroon, Achille Mbembe ranks 13 out of 132Before him are Issa Hayatou (1946), Thomas N'Kono (1956), Patrick M'Boma (1970), Christian Tumi (1930), Marc-Vivien Foé (1975), and Samuel Umtiti (1993). After him are Rigobert Song (1976), Mongo Beti (1932), Joseph-Antoine Bell (1954), Philémon Yang (1947), Joseph Ngute (1954), and Alex Song (1987).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Cameroon

Among philosophers born in Cameroon, Achille Mbembe ranks 1