Oliver Coates is Director of Studies in History and Politics at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and Associate Researcher of the Institut des mondes africaines, CNRS, Paris. His recent research has been published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsWhy Mbembe?Key ideas1. Race, Africa, and Questions of Knowledge2. The Colony3. The Postcolony4. The Nocturnal Sphere and Necropolitics5. Out of the Dark Night: Decolonization and the New Human6. Afropolitanism7. Technology8. The Planetary and the CommonAfter MbembeFurther ReadingWorks CitedIndex

Oliver Coates is Director of Studies in History and Politics at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and Associate Researcher of the Institut des mondes africaines, CNRS, Paris. His recent research has been published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsWhy Mbembe?Key ideas1. Race, Africa, and Questions of Knowledge2. The Colony3. The Postcolony4. The Nocturnal Sphere and Necropolitics5. Out of the Dark Night: Decolonization and the New Human6. Afropolitanism7. Technology8. The Planetary and the CommonAfter MbembeFurther ReadingWorks CitedIndex

Oliver Coates is Director of Studies in History and Politics at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and Associate Researcher of the Institut des mondes africaines, CNRS, Paris. His recent research has been published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsWhy Mbembe?Key ideas1. Race, Africa, and Questions of Knowledge2. The Colony3. The Postcolony4. The Nocturnal Sphere and Necropolitics5. Out of the Dark Night: Decolonization and the New Human6. Afropolitanism7. Technology8. The Planetary and the CommonAfter MbembeFurther ReadingWorks CitedIndex