Talk on Mudimbe's "The Invention of Africa"

 

V.Y. Mudimbe’s The Invention of Africa is an articulate interrogation of the assumptions and presumptions of the humanities and social sciences insofar as they sought to study various aspects of African cultures almost three decades after most African countries gained their formal political independence. Nevertheless, it is regrettable that a substantial number of scholars in so-called Anglophone Africa are unaware of this groundbreaking work.