TY - GEN AU - Abdelmadjid,Salim AU - Fouéré,Marie-Aude AU - Le Lay,Maëline TI - Thinking Africa with V.Y. Mudimbe SN - 978-2-493207-33-3 PY - 2025/// CY - Nairobi PB - Africae KW - Philosophy KW - Literature African Australian Canadian KW - African philosophy KW - Africanism KW - colonial KW - Congo N1 - Ebook N2 - The philosophical and literary work of V.Y. Mudimbe is one of the most decisive contemporary contributions to thinking Africa. It demonstrates that Africa results from an exogenous, asymmetrical historical construction, of extreme violence, that has constitutively biased the supposedly scientific knowledge about African societies and has therefore required both practical and theoretical reappropriation by Africans. What can be done now to achieve Mudimbe’s aim of thinking and studying Africa against and from outside the epistemic cage of the colonial library? This collection, the fruit of a collaboration between IFRA-Nairobi and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, is an attempt to think Africa along Mudimbe’s manifold work, ranging from philosophy to literature and the social sciences, carried out in African and Western contexts, in French and English. It features essays by researchers in philosophy, literature and anthropology, as well as a dialogue about Mudimbe’s influence in art, and the translation of an excerpt from his autobiography, Les Corps glorieux des mots et des êtres, which exposes the colonial domestication of spaces and minds in his native Congo.  L’œuvre philosophique et littéraire de V.Y. Mudimbe est l’une des contributions contemporaines les plus décisives à la réflexion sur l’Afrique. Elle démontre que l’Afrique résulte d’une construction historique exogène, asymétrique et d’une extrême violence, qui a biaisé de manière constitutive la connaissance prétendument scientifique des sociétés africaines et a donc nécessité une réappropriation à la fois pratique et théorique par les Africains. Comment, aujourd’hui, atteindre l’objectif de Mudimbe de penser et d’étudier l’Afrique contre et depuis l’extérieur de la cage épistémique de la bibliothèque coloniale ? Ce recueil, fruit d’une collaboration entre l’IFRA-Nairobi et le département de philosophie et d’études religieuses de l’université de Nairobi, est… UR - https://books.openedition.org/africae/7451 ER -