V. Y. Mudimbe

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe was born on 8 December 1941 in Jadotville, today's Likasi, in Katanga. A graduate of Lovanium University in Kinshasa, he defended a doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1970, taught at Nanterre, in Kinshasa and from 1971 to 1980 in Lubumbashi, then in the United States, at Haverford and at Duke University. A philosopher, poet and novelist, author in 1988 of The Invention of Africa, he died in 2025.

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