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Africa on the cusp of natality – from Afropessimism to African becoming A Review of Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr's edited volumes: To Write the Africa World (Polity Press, 2023a) and The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becoming (Polity Press, 2023b)

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Africa on the cusp of natality – from Afropessimism to African becoming A Review of Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr's edited volumes: To Write the Africa World (Polity Press, 2023a) and The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becoming (Polity Press, 2023b)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2025

Adeshina Afolayan
Adeshina Afolayan*
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University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Center for Human Rights, University of the Free State, South Africa
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 291 - 294
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