In 2016, the Cameroonian political scientist Achille Mbembe published Politiques de l’inimitié (translated as Necropolitics), which deepens his thinking on the postcolonial experience and reality. Combining political science, history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy, Mbembe looks at the development of African nations since their independence around 1960. This paper will indicate how the concept of enmity, which is at the centre of the 2016 essay, is a form of institutionalised chaos set up by the Western democratic states in order to preserve the status quo of hegemonic relationships dating back to the slave trade and colonial times. Using a Fanonian approach, Mbembe shows that these deeply flawed conditions, where the idea of “normality” is rather an imposed dysfunction, perpetuate a wide range of discriminations and will lead inevitably to a state of complete failure. The association with naraku will allow me to develop further the concept of “enmity” as a driving force for the current tensions and their apparent unresolvedness. However, according to Mbembe, “Fanon’s pharmacy” could provide the cure, which is developed in contemporary works by several intellectuals, such as Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia (2016). As such, Necropolitics is an integral part of this new decolonial thinking that shows that discord and dysfunction lie at the root of transformation and metanoia.