Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Title
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Birth Date
1941
Birthplace
Likasi, Democratic Republic of Congo
Primary Sources
Mudimbé, V. Y., & Kavwahirehi, K. (Eds.). (2021). Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Cham: Springer. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5
Mudimbé, V. Y. (2016). The Mudimbe Reader. University of Virginia Press.
Mudimbé, V. Y. (2014). África: pensamiento y controversias. El Colegio de Mexico AC.
Mudimbé, V. (2013). Reading There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 48(6), 671-682. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909613506487
Mudimbé, V. Y. (2013). On African Fault Lines: Meditations on Alterity Politics. UKZN Press. https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/1025769
Mudimbé, V.Y. (1997) (Ed) Nations, Identities, Cultures, Durham: Duke University Press,
https://www.dukeupress.edu/nations-identities-cultures
Mudimbé, V.Y. (1994) The Idea of Africa. Indiana University Press.
Mudimbé, V. Y. (Ed.). (1992). The surreptitious speech: Presence africaine and the politics of otherness 1947-1987. University of Chicago Press.
Mudimbé, V. Y. (1991). Parables and Fables: exegesis, textuality, and politics in Central Africa. University of Wisconsin Press.
Mudimbé, V. Y. (1988). The invention of Africa: Gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge.
Indiana University Press .Secondary Sources
Wai, Z. (2015). On the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge: Mudimbe, Gnosis and the Challenge of the Colonial Library. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 18(2–3), 263–290. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.18.2-3.263_1
Fraiture, P. (2014). ’ VY Mudimbe: from the “Nation” to the “Global” - “Who is the Master?” ’. Journal of Historical Sociology, 27(3), 324–342. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12060
Binsbergen, W. (2005). ‘An incomprehensible miracle’ – Central African clerical intellectualism versus African historic religion: A close reading of Valentin Mudimbe’s Tales of Faith. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 17(1), 11–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/0090988052000344638
Fraiture, P. (2014). ’ VY Mudimbe: from the “Nation” to the “Global” - “Who is the Master?” ’. Journal of Historical Sociology, 27(3), 324–342. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12060
Fraiture, P.-P. (2013). V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vjnck
Mazrui, A. A. (2005). The Re-Invention of Africa: Edward Said, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Beyond. Research in African Literatures, 36(3), 68–82. https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0153Binsbergen, W. (2005). ‘An incomprehensible miracle’ – Central African clerical intellectualism versus African historic religion: A close reading of Valentin Mudimbe’s Tales of Faith. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 17(1), 11–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/0090988052000344638
Extra Resources
Thinking Mudimbe Colloquim,Thinking Mudimbe Colloquium Session II with Zahir Kolia, Gervais Yamb, & Zubairu Wai (21 April 2022). FaceBook. Accessed March 2, 2023. https://www.facebook.com/VYMudimbe/
Conversation of The World - Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (20 June, 2013). ALICE CES. YouTube. Accessed March 2 2023. https://youtu.be/HvHFQGMtKlY
Smith, F. (1991). A Conversation With V. Y. Mudimbe. Callaloo, 14(4), 969–986. https://doi.org/10.2307/2931216
Conversation of The World - Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (20 June, 2013). ALICE CES. YouTube. Accessed March 2 2023. https://youtu.be/HvHFQGMtKlY
Smith, F. (1991). A Conversation With V. Y. Mudimbe. Callaloo, 14(4), 969–986. https://doi.org/10.2307/2931216
Collection
Citation
“Valentin-Yves Mudimbe,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/53.