![Cameroonian Political Theorist Achille Mbembe Has Won the €100,000 Gerda Henkel Prize for Research](https://www.okayafrica.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=18251397&width=1200&height=800&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C1%2C0)
Achille Mbembe speaking at the African Futures festival in Johannesburg in 2015. (Photo: Lerato Maduna. Courtesy of Goethe-Institut South Africa)
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This is the first time an African scholar has won the prestigious German award for outstanding research.