The life and work of V.-Y. Mudimbe, 8 December 1941–21 April 2025
Abstrak
V.-Y. Mudimbe, a distinguished figure in African philosophy, novelist, poet, essayist and influential scholar across multiple fields – including African studies, cultural studies, literature, linguistics, history and anthropology – passed away on Monday 21 April 2025, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire), where he began his academic career, to Stanford and Duke Universities, as well as educational institutions in Europe and Latin America, V.-Y. Mudimbe distinguished himself by deconstructing the discourses that, from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present, have influenced the understanding of the African world and shaped representations of Africa and Africans in global thought as a paradigm of difference. This lifelong work aimed to expose the limitations of these discourses and their inability to speak about or describe their subject without imposing categories rooted in another historical experience – the Western experience, regarded as the standard and the ultimate measure of all other historical experiences.
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Kasereka Kavwahirehi
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- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
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- DOI
- 10.1017/S0001972025101617
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