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            <text>&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y., &amp;amp; Kavwahirehi, K. (Eds.). (2021). &lt;i&gt;Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy&lt;/i&gt;. Cham: Springer. &lt;a href="https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5"&gt;https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y. (2016). &lt;i&gt;The Mudimbe Reader&lt;/i&gt;. University of Virginia Press.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y. (2014). &lt;i&gt;África: pensamiento y controversias&lt;/i&gt;. El Colegio de Mexico AC.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;br /&gt;Mudimbé, V. (2013). Reading There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. &lt;em&gt;Journal of Asian and African Studies&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;48&lt;/em&gt;(6), 671-682. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909613506487"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909613506487&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;div&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y. (2013). &lt;i&gt;On African Fault Lines: Meditations on Alterity Politics&lt;/i&gt;. UKZN Press. &lt;a href="https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/1025769"&gt;https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/1025769&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;br /&gt;Mudimbé, V.Y. (1997) (Ed) &lt;i&gt;Nations, Identities, Cultures&lt;/i&gt;, Durham: Duke University Press,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/nations-identities-cultures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://www.dukeupress.edu/nations-identities-cultures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mudimbé, V.Y. (1994) &lt;i&gt;The Idea of Africa. &lt;/i&gt;Indiana University Press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y. (Ed.). (1992). &lt;i&gt;The surreptitious speech: Presence africaine and the politics of otherness 1947-1987&lt;/i&gt;. University of Chicago Press.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y. (1991). &lt;i&gt;Parables and Fables: exegesis, textuality, and politics in Central Africa&lt;/i&gt;. University of Wisconsin Press.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"&gt;Mudimbé, V. Y. (1988). &lt;em&gt;The invention of Africa: Gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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            <text>Wai, Z. (2015). On the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge: Mudimbe, Gnosis and the Challenge of the Colonial Library.&lt;i&gt; International Journal of Francophone Studies&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;18&lt;/em&gt;(2–3), 263–290. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.18.2-3.263_1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.18.2-3.263_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fraiture, P. (2014). ’ VY Mudimbe: from the “Nation” to the “Global” - “Who is the Master?” ’. &lt;i&gt;Journal of Historical Sociology&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;27&lt;/em&gt;(3), 324–342. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12060" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12060&lt;/a&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Fraiture, P.-P. (2013). &lt;em&gt;V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism&lt;/em&gt;. Liverpool University Press. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vjnck"&gt;https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vjnck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
Mazrui, A. A. (2005). The Re-Invention of Africa: Edward Said, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Beyond. &lt;em&gt;Research in African Literatures&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;36&lt;/em&gt;(3), 68–82. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0153" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0153&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binsbergen, W. (2005). ‘An incomprehensible miracle’ – Central African clerical intellectualism versus African historic religion: A close reading of Valentin Mudimbe’s Tales of Faith. J&lt;i&gt;ournal of African Cultural Studies&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;17&lt;/em&gt;(1), 11–65. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0090988052000344638" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1080/0090988052000344638&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>Thinking Mudimbe Colloquim,Thinking Mudimbe Colloquium Session II with Zahir Kolia, Gervais Yamb, &amp;amp; Zubairu Wai (21 April 2022). FaceBook. Accessed March 2, 2023. &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/VYMudimbe/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/VYMudimbe/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conversation of The World - Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (20 June, 2013). ALICE CES. YouTube. Accessed March 2 2023. &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/HvHFQGMtKlY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://youtu.be/HvHFQGMtKlY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smith, F. (1991). A Conversation With V. Y. Mudimbe. &lt;em&gt;Callaloo&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;14&lt;/em&gt;(4), 969–986. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2931216" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://doi.org/10.2307/2931216&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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