Valentin-Yves Mudimbe

Title

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe

Birth Date

1941

Birthplace

Likasi, Democratic Republic of Congo

Primary Sources

Mudimbe, V.Y. and Kavwahirehi, K. (2021) Encyclopedia of African religions and philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer.

Mudimbe, V.Y. (1997) (Ed) Nations, Identities, Cultures, Durham: Duke University Press, 
https://www.dukeupress.edu/nations-identities-cultures

Mudimbe, V.Y.(1994) The idea of Africa London:: Bloomington, Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33126-9

Mudimbe, V.Y. (Ed) (1992) The Surreptitious speech: Présence africaine and the politics of otherness, 1947-1987. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mudimbe, V.Y. (1991) Parables and fables: exegesis, textuality, and politics in central Africa, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.

Mudimbe, V.Y.(1988) The Invention of Africa Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge, London: Bloomington: Indiana University Press .

Secondary Sources

Fraiture P. P and Orrells. D. (Eds)(2016) The Mudimbe reader, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

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

Fraiture, P.-P. (2013). V.Y. Mudimbe : undisciplined Africanism / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture. Liverpool University Press.

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.2005.0153

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

Mudimbe, V.Y. and Appiah, K, A., (1993) The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy, In Bates, R. H, Mudimbe, V. Y., and O’Barr J. F., (Ed) Africa and the disciplines: the contributions of research in Africa to the social sciences and humanities, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mudimbe, V.Y. (1991) Parables and fables: exegesis, textuality, and politics in central Africa, Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press.

Extra Resources

Thinking Mudimbe Colloquim,Thinking Mudimbe Colloquium Session II (with Zahir Kolia, Gervais Yamb, & Zubairu Wai Thursday, 21 April 2022 | 2:30 – 4:30 PM EST https://www.facebook.com/VYMudimbe/

Conversation of The World - Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos,
ALICE CES, a project coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra: 20th of June 2013, "ALICE, Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons" Accessed Mar 2 2023, 
https://youtu.be/HvHFQGMtKlY

Conversation of The World - Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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 December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/53.

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