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"We can now read these stories, these descriptions, and say, well, these are constructs which were made at a given moment, and today we can make others. So Europeans have invented Africa, but, today, Africans are inventing their own Africa.” – V.Y. Mudimbe
May 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
_The Invention of Africa_ "was a landmark in ­postcolonial studies, ­serving [as Africa's] equivalent of Edward Said’s Orientalism. ... He was instrumental in showing how embedded colonial ­attitudes are within the humanities."

RIP Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
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Obituary: Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Philosopher and writer who challenged ‘Heart of Darkness’ cliches about the continent of Africa
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May 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Décès du philosophe congolais V.Y. Mudimbe, auteur du célèbre essai «L'invention de l'Afrique» https://limportant.fr/infos-afrique/50/616370 #GlobalVoicesFr
May 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
April 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe: the philosopher who reshaped how the world thinks about Africa theconversation.com/valentin-yve... @romklass.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe: the philosopher who reshaped how the world thinks about Africa
Few have challenged colonial knowledge systems as profoundly as Mudimbe.
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May 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🌍 Remembering Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a giant in African critical thought. His legacy in postcolonial studies will continue to inspire. 🕊️📚

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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe: the philosopher who reshaped how the world thinks about Africa
Few have challenged colonial knowledge systems as profoundly as Mudimbe.
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May 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Congolese philosopher and writer V.Y. Mudimbe passed away on April 22 at the age of 83. He leaves behind a body of work essential to understanding colonization and African identities.
V. Y. Mudimbe, Congolese philosopher, author of the renowned essay ‘The Invention of Africa’ dies at 83
The Congolese philosopher and writer V.Y. Mudimbe passed away on April 22 at the age of 83. He leaves behind a body of work essential to understanding colonization and African identities.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Philosophers such as VY Mudimbe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Walter Mignolo or Enrique Dussel in Argentina, or Kojin Karatani in Japan have far more legitimate claims to universality than Habermas and his ilk ever did. | Hamid Dabashi - Middle East Eye
Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt
From Heidegger's Nazism to Habermas's Zionism, the suffering of the 'Other' is of little consequence
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January 26, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Join us on Monday in Florence and online for the transdisciplinary workshop "Silhouettes, Shadows and Masks as Thinking Models: Reflecting with Fanon, Mbembe, and Mudimbe" organised by Hana Gründler and Rosa Sancarlo (Research Group "Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual").

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Silhouettes, Shadows and Masks as Thinking Models: Reflecting with Fanon, Mbembe, and Mudimbe
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January 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, muere; El erudito africano desafió a Occidente

El Sr. Mudimbe no se disculpaba. “A la pregunta '¿Qué es África?' o '¿Cómo definir las culturas africanas?' Hoy no puede dejar de referirse a un cuerpo de conocimiento en el que África ha sido subsumido por disciplinas…
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, muere; El erudito africano desafió a Occidente
El Sr. Mudimbe no se disculpaba. “A la pregunta '¿Qué es África?' o '¿Cómo definir las culturas africanas?' Hoy no puede dejar de referirse a un cuerpo de conocimiento en el que África ha sido subsumido por disciplinas occidentales como la antropología, la historia, la teología o cualquier otro discurso científico ", dijo a Callaloo. "Y este es el nivel en el que situar mi proyecto".
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April 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
💔 Ayer falleció el profesor Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, gran filósofo africano.

Adiós a uno de los pensadores contemporáneos más importantes que ha logrado desvelar los mitos sobre la idea de #África y establecer puentes para pasar de un pensamiento eurocéntrico a otro más plural y consciente.
April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Forewarned is forearmed: These are my long-winded thoughts...

V. Y. Mudimbe, the Congolese author, philosopher and professor, argued in The Invention of Africa¹ that (African scholarly) knowledge of Africa is based on European constructs—that…

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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence x Zeinab Badawi (—mine is more of a ramble…)
531 pages. Published on April 18, 2024 by Ebury Publishing. Non-fiction. Forewarned is forearmed: These are my long-winded thoughts on the book (and a kind of summary). V. Y. Mudimbe, the Congolese…
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December 31, 2024 at 6:32 PM
RIP Mudimbe
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American philosopher, cultural historian and novelist who questioned the West’s intellectual tools for appraising Africa, identifying them as part of what he deemed a colonizing apparatus, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 83.
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
VY Mudimbe, the polymathic Congolese philologist, philosopher, novelist and poet best known for The invention of Africa (1988), has died.

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Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
Il avait signé L'Invention de l'Afrique, un incontournable des études africaines : le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé dans la nuit du 21 au 22 avril 2025 à l’âge de 83 ans en Car...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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était francophone et sa pensée a pu se développer pleinement qu'en contexte anglophone

La francophonie et ses structures matérielles n'auraient pas pu lui permettre de déployer sa pensée
April 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
V. Y. Mudimbe (1941-2025), baobab of African Studies. He taught us that "Africa" is a product of a "colonial library."
April 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American philosopher, cultural historian and novelist who questioned the West’s intellectual tools for appraising Africa, identifying them as part of what he deemed a colonizing apparatus, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 83.
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Valentin Mudimbe, presente
April 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Qui était Valentin Mudimbe, auteur de « L’Invention de l’Afrique » et pilier des études africaines ?

Le philosophe originaire de RDC (1941-2025) est mort ce 22 avril. La philosophe Nadia Yala Kisukidi rappelle une oeuvre et un parcours fondamentaux pour le continent.
Qui était Valentin Mudimbe, auteur de « L’Invention de l’Afrique » et pilier des études africaines ?
Le philosophe originaire de RDC (1941-2025) est mort ce 22 avril. La philosophe Nadia Yala Kisukidi rappelle une œuvre et un parcours fondamentaux pour le continent.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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June 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, muere; El erudito africano desafió a Occidente

El Sr. Mudimbe no se disculpaba. “A la pregunta '¿Qué es África?' o '¿Cómo definir las culturas africanas?' Hoy no puede dejar de referirse a un cuerpo de conocimiento en el que África ha sido subsumido por disciplinas…
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, muere; El erudito africano desafió a Occidente
El Sr. Mudimbe no se disculpaba. “A la pregunta '¿Qué es África?' o '¿Cómo definir las culturas africanas?' Hoy no puede dejar de referirse a un cuerpo de conocimiento en el que África ha sido subsumido por disciplinas occidentales como la antropología, la historia, la teología o cualquier otro discurso científico ", dijo a Callaloo. "Y este es el nivel en el que situar mi proyecto".
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April 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
RIP VY Mudimbe.
April 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM