द इन्वेंशन ऑफ़ अफ़्रीका

परिचय

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.

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जिस पर आधारित

• वस्तुओं का क्रम1966 · मिशेल फूको
• अफ़्रीकी दर्शन: मिथक और वास्तविकता1976 · पॉलिन हौंतोंजी

जिनकी आलोचना की

• बांटू फ़िलॉसफ़ी1945 · प्लासिड तेंपेल्स