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.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:48 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, North Carolina. He was 83.
Repose en paix, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, auteur congolais et figure importante de la philosophie africaine, est mort
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, auteur congolais et figure importante de la philosophie africaine, est mort
Auteur d’une œuvre protéiforme mêlant essais et romans, il s’est éteint dans la nuit du 21 au 22 avril à l’âge de 83 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
April 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Repose en paix, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
RIP Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (1941-2025) ❤️
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
RIP Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (1941-2025) ❤️
RIP VY Mudimbe (The Invention of Africa changed everything for me).
April 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
RIP VY Mudimbe (The Invention of Africa changed everything for me).
Africa Beyond Inventions (2024)
Essays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe
The most comprehensive collection of essays in English on the work of V.Y. Mudimbe, considering the way Africa features in global knowledge economies, and the possibility of epistemic decolonisation.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Essays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe
The most comprehensive collection of essays in English on the work of V.Y. Mudimbe, considering the way Africa features in global knowledge economies, and the possibility of epistemic decolonisation.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 11, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Africa Beyond Inventions (2024)
Essays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe
The most comprehensive collection of essays in English on the work of V.Y. Mudimbe, considering the way Africa features in global knowledge economies, and the possibility of epistemic decolonisation.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Essays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe
The most comprehensive collection of essays in English on the work of V.Y. Mudimbe, considering the way Africa features in global knowledge economies, and the possibility of epistemic decolonisation.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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-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.
🌍 Remembering Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a giant in African critical thought. His legacy in postcolonial studies will continue to inspire. 🕊️📚
theconversation.com/valentin-yve...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
theconversation.com/valentin-yve...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe: the philosopher who reshaped how the world thinks about Africa
Few have challenged colonial knowledge systems as profoundly as Mudimbe.
theconversation.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🌍 Remembering Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a giant in African critical thought. His legacy in postcolonial studies will continue to inspire. 🕊️📚
theconversation.com/valentin-yve...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
theconversation.com/valentin-yve...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
Não tinha visto esta notícia. Nossa! Ele era muito muito grande... um gigante do continente africano.
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
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 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Não tinha visto esta notícia. Nossa! Ele era muito muito grande... um gigante do continente africano.
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
29. a ideia de africa, de Mudimbe. pra um dia entenderem que não é algo já dado, mas uma invenção. do ocidente. e uma invenção muito bem amarrada.
February 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
29. a ideia de africa, de Mudimbe. pra um dia entenderem que não é algo já dado, mas uma invenção. do ocidente. e uma invenção muito bem amarrada.
(do people not in francophone studies still read Mudimbe?
It feels as though even Africanists prefer to quote Said on orientalism over Mudimbe, though Mudimbe does for Africa what Said did for that fictional place termed the Orient)
It feels as though even Africanists prefer to quote Said on orientalism over Mudimbe, though Mudimbe does for Africa what Said did for that fictional place termed the Orient)
March 20, 2026 at 10:53 AM
(do people not in francophone studies still read Mudimbe?
It feels as though even Africanists prefer to quote Said on orientalism over Mudimbe, though Mudimbe does for Africa what Said did for that fictional place termed the Orient)
It feels as though even Africanists prefer to quote Said on orientalism over Mudimbe, though Mudimbe does for Africa what Said did for that fictional place termed the Orient)
V.Y. Mudimbe has died. A decent write up on the Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...
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 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
V.Y. Mudimbe has died. A decent write up on the Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...
Mes hommages, tardifs, si tardifs...
Merci V. Y. Mudimbe, d'avoir existé
Merci V. Y. Mudimbe, d'avoir existé
May 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mes hommages, tardifs, si tardifs...
Merci V. Y. Mudimbe, d'avoir existé
Merci V. Y. Mudimbe, d'avoir existé
a healthy dose of self-awareness
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
a healthy dose of self-awareness
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, auteur congolais et figure importante de la philosophie africaine, est mort
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, auteur congolais et figure importante de la philosophie africaine, est mort
Auteur d’une œuvre protéiforme mêlant essais et romans, il s’est éteint dans la nuit du 21 au 22 avril à l’âge de 83 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
April 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, auteur congolais et figure importante de la philosophie africaine, est mort
Africa has just lost one of its greatest thinkers: V. Y. Mudimbe. The French translation by Laurent Vannini of his seminal book "The Invention of #Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge" (Indiana UP, 1988) was published by Présence Africaine in 2021 bit.ly/2QQmAj6 #VYMudimbe #Mudimbe
April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Africa has just lost one of its greatest thinkers: V. Y. Mudimbe. The French translation by Laurent Vannini of his seminal book "The Invention of #Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge" (Indiana UP, 1988) was published by Présence Africaine in 2021 bit.ly/2QQmAj6 #VYMudimbe #Mudimbe
The Invention of Africa by V.Y Mudimbe ino.to/b2687Dk
The Invention of Africa by V.Y Mudimbe
Congolese philosopher Mudimbe (1988) said Africa as an essentialized generic concept was a colonial invention, but what does that mean for postcolonial panafrican scholarship, and how do we uninven…
ino.to
September 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The Invention of Africa by V.Y Mudimbe ino.to/b2687Dk
#MyStudents pour les M1 du cours #GrandsDébatsPostcoloniaux
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
Tristesse #InventionDeLAfrique
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
Tristesse #InventionDeLAfrique
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...
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/20250422-le-philosophe-congolais-valentin-yves-mudimbe-est-décédé-à-l-âge-de-83-ans
April 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#MyStudents pour les M1 du cours #GrandsDébatsPostcoloniaux
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
Tristesse #InventionDeLAfrique
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/2...
Tristesse #InventionDeLAfrique
This person does brilliant work in ‘public outreach’. Here infra, explanation of a part of Mudimbe’s work. Gnosis is a critical term and Mudimbe an important philosopher.
April 21, 2026 at 8:33 AM
This person does brilliant work in ‘public outreach’. Here infra, explanation of a part of Mudimbe’s work. Gnosis is a critical term and Mudimbe an important philosopher.
Aujourd'hui, dans @collateralrevue.bsky.social, Amina Bekkat rend hommage à Valentin Yves Mudimbe qui nous a quittés fin avril en revenant sur l'ensemble de son oeuvre clef. Lisez : vous verrez.
www.collateral.media/post/v-y-mud...
www.collateral.media/post/v-y-mud...
V.Y. Mudimbe, entre les eaux…
Le 22 avril 2025, Valentin Yves Mudimbe, plus connu sous le nom de V.Y. Mudimbe a quitté ce monde. Il vivait près du campus de l’Université de Duke où il avait enseigné. Sa réputation et ses nombreux ...
www.collateral.media
May 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Aujourd'hui, dans @collateralrevue.bsky.social, Amina Bekkat rend hommage à Valentin Yves Mudimbe qui nous a quittés fin avril en revenant sur l'ensemble de son oeuvre clef. Lisez : vous verrez.
www.collateral.media/post/v-y-mud...
www.collateral.media/post/v-y-mud...
Didn’t plan to until this morning but after we talked about Achebe’s Image of Africa, Wainaina (“how not to”) and before Mudimbe, students helped me to annotate Jasanoff’s NYT piece about retracing Conrad’s journey in Congo
They were very wtf is this
They were very wtf is this
April 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Didn’t plan to until this morning but after we talked about Achebe’s Image of Africa, Wainaina (“how not to”) and before Mudimbe, students helped me to annotate Jasanoff’s NYT piece about retracing Conrad’s journey in Congo
They were very wtf is this
They were very wtf is this
Jammer dat er een slimme mens voor moest sterven, maar kijk: mijn foto staat op @nytimes.com.
Foto in 2006 genomen voor @vetobe.bsky.social toen Mudimbe eredoctor werd aan @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Moraal:
1️⃣ Ga bij de studentenkrant
2️⃣ Zet je werk online
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...
Foto in 2006 genomen voor @vetobe.bsky.social toen Mudimbe eredoctor werd aan @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Moraal:
1️⃣ Ga bij de studentenkrant
2️⃣ Zet je werk online
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West (Gift Article)
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 7:52 PM
Jammer dat er een slimme mens voor moest sterven, maar kijk: mijn foto staat op @nytimes.com.
Foto in 2006 genomen voor @vetobe.bsky.social toen Mudimbe eredoctor werd aan @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Moraal:
1️⃣ Ga bij de studentenkrant
2️⃣ Zet je werk online
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...
Foto in 2006 genomen voor @vetobe.bsky.social toen Mudimbe eredoctor werd aan @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Moraal:
1️⃣ Ga bij de studentenkrant
2️⃣ Zet je werk online
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...