The film essay by photographer and artist Sammy Baloji, for which David Van Reybrouck wrote the screenplay, will be screened in the Tiger Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR). L' arbre de l' authenticité explores the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its ecological consequences. Based on research from the 1930s, the film highlights the crucial role of the Congo Basin as a CO2 repository and its impact on our global ecological balance.

Revolusi is shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and nominated for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. 

The Cundill History Prize is the world’s leading prize for history writing. The US$75,000 prize is awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and diverse appeal.

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction aims to recognise and reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of any nationality. The winning author will receive £50,000.

David Van Reybrouck has been appointed as the 2024 Arne Næss Professor at the University of Oslo. "The Arne Næss Chair in Global Justice and the Environment is awarded annually to a scholar, leader or activist of international renown," says the website of the Centre for Development and the Environment. The Chair was named after Arne Næss, widely regarded as Norway's most influential philosopher of the 20th century, a pioneer of environmental philosophy, an avid mountaineer and the founder of the "deep ecology" movement.