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Thinking Africa with V.Y. Mudimbe
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Thinking Africa with V.Y. Mudimbe

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The philosophical and literary work of V.Y. Mudimbe is one of the most decisive contemporary contributions to thinking Africa. It demonstrates that Africa results from an exogenous, asymmetrical historical construction, of extreme violence, that has constitutively biased the supposedly scientific knowledge about African societies and has therefore required both practical and theoretical reappropriation by Africans. What can be done now to achieve Mudimbe's aim of thinking and studying Africa against and from outside the epistemic cage of the colonial library? This collection, the fruit of a collaboration between IFRA-Nairobi and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, is an attempt to think Africa along Mudimbe's manifold work, ranging from philosophy to literature and the social sciences, carried out in African and Western contexts, in French and English. It features essays by researchers in philosophy, literature and anthropology, as well as a dialogue about Mudimbe's influence in art, and the translation of an excerpt from his autobiography, Les Corps glorieux des mots et des tres, which exposes the colonial domestication of spaces and minds in his native Congo.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Twaweza Communications
Date
12 April 2025
Pages
184
ISBN
9789966128256

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

The philosophical and literary work of V.Y. Mudimbe is one of the most decisive contemporary contributions to thinking Africa. It demonstrates that Africa results from an exogenous, asymmetrical historical construction, of extreme violence, that has constitutively biased the supposedly scientific knowledge about African societies and has therefore required both practical and theoretical reappropriation by Africans. What can be done now to achieve Mudimbe's aim of thinking and studying Africa against and from outside the epistemic cage of the colonial library? This collection, the fruit of a collaboration between IFRA-Nairobi and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, is an attempt to think Africa along Mudimbe's manifold work, ranging from philosophy to literature and the social sciences, carried out in African and Western contexts, in French and English. It features essays by researchers in philosophy, literature and anthropology, as well as a dialogue about Mudimbe's influence in art, and the translation of an excerpt from his autobiography, Les Corps glorieux des mots et des tres, which exposes the colonial domestication of spaces and minds in his native Congo.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Twaweza Communications
Date
12 April 2025
Pages
184
ISBN
9789966128256