"Mbembe refreshes the debate in a Europe consumed by the 'desire of apartheid.' This is a man who is not afraid to throw national history, identities, and borders out the window. French universalism? 'Conceited, ' asserts Mbembe. . . . In the style of Edouard Glissant . . . he doesn't limit his geography to the level of the nation but expands it to the 'Whole-World.' He dreams of writing a common history of humanity that would deflate all the flashy national heroism and redraw new relations between the self and the other. In a France and a Europe which are even afraid of their own shadows, one can clearly see the subversive potential of Mbembe's thought. His latest book Necropolitics, draws the unpleasant portrait of a continent eaten up by the desire of 'apartheid, ' moved by the obsessive search for an enemy, and with war as its favorite game."–Cécile Daumas, "Libération"