Gendered Necropolitics.

Cameroonian Philosopher and postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe's book was one of those readings this year I did until I can tell which chapter to find which lines. Thanks to one of the best film professors anyone could ask for. However, I read Mbembe until I was sliding into melancholy because his description was so apt

Mbembe defines necropolitics as "the power to kill, to let live, or to expose to death exercised" (p.66). It is "the power to manufacture an entire crowd of people who specifically live at the edge of life, or even on its outer edge— people for whom living means continually standing up to death, and doing so under conditions in which death itself increasingly tends to become spectral(p.37)In Mbembe's characterization of necro politics "death is something to which nobody feels any obligation to respond. Nobody even bears the slightest feelings of responsibility or justice toward this sort of life or, rather, death" (p.38)."

Bamise was only buried a few weeks ago, and now this. I am too weak to say more or even engage another Salami Adebayo who will say that the number of death is too small.

My condolences to the family of Lawyer Bolanle Raheem, her husband, daughter, friends, and colleague.

I can't use her picture, among others; it reminds me of how endangered we are as women in this country

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