V. Y. Mudimbe
V.Y. Mudimbe (born 1941) is a philosopher, professor, and author of books and articles about African culture, poems, and novels. Mudimbe was a former assistant of Michel Foucault. He was born in the Belgian Congo, which became Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a young man, he joined a Benedictine monastery, but left in order to study the forces that shaped African history. He and his family left Zaire to escape the dictatorship of Mobutu in the early 1980s.[1] After teaching at Haverford College and Stanford University, he now teaches at Duke University.
Mudimbe focuses most closely on phenomenology, structuralism, mythical narratives, and the practice and use of language. As a professor, he teaches classes on these topics, as wells as on ancient Greek cultural geography.
Education
- Junior College Degree, Lovanium University, Leopoldville (Kinshasa), Congo (1962)
- Diploma, Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo (1964)
- BA, Lovanium University, Kinshasa (1966)
- Graduate Studies, University of Paris (1968)
- Ph. D. with High Honors, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (1970)
Books
- L'Odeur Du Père (1982)
- The Invention of Africa (1988)
- Parables and Fables (1991)
- The Surreptitious Speech, editor (1992)
- The Rift (1993)
- The Idea of Africa (1994)
- Tales of Faith (1997)
- Nations, Identities, Cultures, editor (1997)
- Diaspora and Immigration, editor (1999)
See also
References
- ^ D. A. Masolo, "Mudimbe, Valentin" in F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo (eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought (Oxford University Press US, 2010: ISBN 0195334736), pp. 139ff.
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