اختراع أفريقيا (The Invention of Africa)

مقدمة

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese philosopher, novelist and poet teaching in the United States, published the book in 1988 with the subtitle “Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge”. Following Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge, he examines the “colonial library” – travel accounts, missionary writings, anthropology – that constructed Africa as primitive and other. He shows that even African discourses about Africa, from Tempels and Kagame through Négritude to the debate between ethnophilosophy and its critics, remained tied to this order of knowledge. Mudimbe asks how an African gnosis might speak without merely reproducing Western categories. The book shared the Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association in 1989.

الصلات

يستند إلى

• الكلمات والأشياء1966 · ميشال فوكو
• الفلسفة الأفريقية: أسطورة وواقع (Sur la philosophie africaine. Critique de l’ethnophilosophie)1976 · بولين هونتونجي

ينتقد

• الفلسفة البانتوية (Bantu Philosophy)1945 · بلاسيد تامبلز