Joseph Tonda is Professor Emeritus at Omar Bongo University of Libreville. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including La guerison divine en Afrique centrale and Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon). Cheryl Smeall is Lending and Access Manager at the McGill University Libraries. She is also the translator of The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal.
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"Postcolonial Imperialism is a fluently translated introduction to a figure who has emerged as one of Africa's most imaginative thinkers. The richness of Joseph Tonda's work lies in the fine detail of his reading of our time as well as in the extravagance of his theoretical constructs."-Achille Mbembe, author of, Necropolitics "This book offers a groundbreaking approach to seemingly exhausted questions of postcoloniality and embodiment. With remarkable ingenuity, Tonda mobilizes a vast and eclectic range of genres and platforms, bringing into compelling dialogue both the celebrated and the infamous. Uncovering the limitations of dominant theoretical paradigms and disciplinary orientations, Tonda reconfigures modernity around transactions, transitions, and transgressions that shape embodied dynamics of violence and value."-Naminata Diabate, author of, Naked Agency