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VERSION OF 22 APRIL 2014
Duke University
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Program in Literature
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V.Y. Mudimbe
I. PERSONAL DATA
Date and Place of Birth:
December 8, 1941 in Likasi (Jadotville), Shaba (Katanga) Province,
Democratic Republic of Congo (Formerly Belgian Congo).
Languages:
a) Classic:
Greek (nine years of study)
Hebrew (two years)
Latin (eleven years)
b) Modern:
1. European:
Fluent in French, Spanish, English; working
knowledge of Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese
and Russian.
2. African:
Fluent in Swahili, Luba, Sanga; working knowledge of
Lingala, Songye, Kinyarwanda, and Kikongo.
II. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2012
Docteur ès lettres Honoris Causa, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
2006
Doctorat Honoris Causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
1997
Docteur Honoris Causa, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (La Chancellerie des Universités de Paris,
Sorbonne), Paris, France.
1970
D. Phil. Let. (Doctorat Légal en Philosophie et Lettres) with High Honors (Grande Distinction),
Université de Louvain, Leuven, Belgium.
a. Dissertation: Air. Étude sémantique. 2 tomes, 3 volumes.
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b. Annex thesis: Analyse sémantique du langage de Ber Borochov.
1968
Graduate studies in sociology, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
1966a Graduate studies in applied linguistics, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, Besançon,
France.
1966b Agrégation (Agrégé de l'Enseignement Moyen du Degré Supérieur) with Honors (Distinction),
Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo.
1966c B.A. (Licence en Philosophie et Lettres, Groupe Philologie Romane) with Honors (Distinction),
Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo. Languages: Latin, Italian, Spanish, and Romanian.
Thesis: Contribution à l'étude des variations du genre grammatical des mots français d'origine
latine. Étude diachronique et synchronique. Kinshasa: Lovanium, p. 323.
1964
Diploma (Candidature en Philosophie et Lettres, Groupe Philologie Romane), Lovanium University,
Leopoldville (Kinshasa), Congo. Languages: Latin, Ancient French, Italian, and Spanish.
1962
Junior College Degree (Graduate) in Economics, Lovanium University, Leopoldville
(Kinshasa), Congo.
III. HONORS RECEIVED
In progress
Anthology, A V.Y. Mudimbe Reader, eds. Daniel Orrells and Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.
Charlottesville, Virginia, US : Virginia University Press, 2015.
2013a
Publication, V.Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism, by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.
Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.
2013b
Profile Article, “V.-Y. Mudimbe in Partibus,” by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture. In
Lubumbashi, cent ans d’histoire, ed. Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele. Paris,
France: Éditions L’Harmattan, pp. 307-319.
2013c
Profile Article, « V.Y. Mudimbe. À la conquête de soi ». Jeune Afrique 27442745 (August): p. 131.
2013d
International Colloquium, “Violence In/And the Great Lakes: The Thought of V.Y.
Mudimbe and Beyond,” 6-9 August, Thinking Africa Group and the Department of
Political Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
2013e
Colloque international, « Autour de V.Y. Mudimbe : Introduction à l’œuvre de
Valentin Yves Mudimbe », 6 June 2013, Department of Philosophy, École normale
supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris, France.
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2013f
International Colloquium, « La Bibliothèque coloniale en débat/Debating the
Colonial Library », 28-31 January 2013, Dakar, Senegal (sponsored and organized by
Afrika Nko and Codesria).
2013g
Festschrift, Entre inscription et prescriptions. V.Y. Mudimbe et l’engendrement de la parole, ed.
Justin K. Bisanswa. Paris, France: Honoré Champion.
2012
Roundtable/Table Ronde, “Sciences humaines et l’Afrique: l’œuvre de Mudimbe et
au-delà,” “L’Afrique en mutations : L’Afrique des individus, L’Afrique des
generations/Africa in Transformation: Africa of Individuals, Africa of Generations,”
(Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies). 2-4 May 2012,
Pavillon De Koninck, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada. Other
Panelists: Bogumil Jewsiewicki-Koss, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Mamadou
Diouf and Fernando Lambert.
2011
Festschrift, Pour un nouvel ordre africain de la connaissance : hommage à V.Y. Mudimbe, ed.
Alphonse Mbuyamba-Kankolongo. Paris, France: Paari.
2010
Colloque international, “Hommage à V.Y. Mudimbe. L’ordre des signes et l’ordre
social chez V.Y. Mudimbe ou le monde de V.Y. Mudimbe,” 10-11 October 2010,
organized by the Chaire de recherche du Canada en Littératures africaines et
Francophonie (Titulaire : Justin K. Bisanswa), Faculté des Sciences humaines,
Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
2009
Roundtable, “The Invention of Africa: Legacies & Impacts”: 19 November 2009, John
Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina, US. Panelists: Gaurav Desai, Achille Mbembe,
V.Y. Mudimbe, and Charles Piot. Organized by Ian Baucom & Charles Piot.
2005
Festschrift, “Reading Mudimbe,” Special Issue, Journal of African Cultural Studies 17
(1), p. 129.
2002a
Festschrift, L’Afrique au Miroir des Littératures. Mélanges offerts à V.Y. Mudimbe. Paris,
Turin, Brussels, Budapest: Archives et Musées de la littérature & L’Harmattan, p.
590.
2002b
Press Conference, “Celebrating V.Y. Mudimbe,” Commune d’Ixelles, Brussels,
Belgium.
2001
Apostolica Benedictio from His Holiness Jean-Paul II, Vatican City.
1997
Lecturer, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany.
1996-2006
Fellow, Academia de la Investigación Científica, Mexico.
1995
“Scholar of the Day,” Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, US).
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1992
Senior Fellow, The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, US (declined).
1990
Festschrift, “On Mudimbe,” Special Issue. Quest: An International African Journal of
Philosophy/Un journal international philosophique africain IV (1). 114 p.
1989
Herskovits Award, presented by the U.S. African Studies Association for outstanding
English language scholarly work on Africa for the Invention of Africa.
1980
Gold Medal of Scientific and Civil Merit, Republic of Zaire.
1979
The Foundation of Japan, Senior Scholar Fellowship, Study trip in Japan.
1977a
“Chevalier de la Pléiade,” Order of the French-Speaking World and Dialogue of
Cultures (Ordre de la Francophonie et du Dialogue des Cultures), 1977 promotion, Paris,
France.
1977b
Grand Prix Senghor des Écrivains de langue française, for the totality of published
work to date, Paris, France.
1974a
Grand Prix du roman catholique, for the novel Entre les eaux, Dieu, un prêtre, la
révolution, Paris, France.
1974b
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and AfroAmerican Institute Fellowship, study trip in U.S.: Washington DC, Atlanta, New
Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Madison, Chicago, New York.
IV. TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
A. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Since 2000
Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences,
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US.
1995-2000
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Departments of French and Italian, Comparative
Literature, and Classics; Program in Modern Thought and Literature; and Center for
African Studies. Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States; and
Research Professor, Program in Literature, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, US.
1991-1994
Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Studies; Professor of Comparative
Literature, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, US.
1988-1990
Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina, US.
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1984-1987
Professor of General Programs, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, US.
1982-1983
Ira Reid Professor of History and Sociology, Haverford College, Haverford,
Pennsylvania, US.
1981-1982
Margaret Gest Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College, Haverford,
Pennsylvania, US.
1974-1980
Professor (Professeur Ordinaire) of Classics, Indo-European Languages and
Comparative Philology, Department of Classics, and Department of Romance
Languages, National University of Zaire, Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo).
1972-1974
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Zaire,
Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo).
1971-1974
Associate Professor (Professeur) of Indo-European Languages, Comparative Philology
and General Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages, National University of
Zaire, Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo).
1970-1971
Assistant Professor (Chargé de Cours) of Indo-European Languages and Historical
Linguistics of French, Department of Romance Languages, Lovanium University,
Lubumbashi, Congo.
1969-1971
Lecturer (Chargé de Cours) in Socio-linguistics, Laboratory of Comparative Ethnology
and Sociology, Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France.
1968-1970
Teaching and Research Assistant to Professor Willy Bal in Indo-European
Languages, Philology and African Literature, Université de Louvain, Leuven,
Belgium.
1967-1968
Lecturer in French Civilization, National School of Law and Public Administration
(École Nationale de Droit et d’Administration), Kinshasa, Congo.
1966-1968
Teaching Assistant in Indo-European Languages, Romance Philology and in General
Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages, Lovanium University, Kinshasa,
Congo.
B. VISITING SPEAKING & TEACHING EXPERIENCE1
2013a
Keynote Lecturer, International Colloquium, “Litterature et Afrique,” 7-8 November
2013, Algerian Ministry of Culture, the Centre National de Recherches
Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques, and SILA (the Salon International
du Livre d’Alger) 2013, Algiers, Algeria.
2013b
Lecturer, 25-27 October, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, US.
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Frequent guest lecturer at universities, institutes, and research centers around the world.
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2013c
Participant, Conference, “Celebrating Congo,” 4-5 October, University of North
Carolina’s Department of Music and Yole! Africa USA, University of North Carolina
– Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US.
2013d
Keynote Speaker, International Colloquium, “Violence In/And the Great Lakes: The
Thought of V.Y. Mudimbe and Beyond,” 6-9 August, Thinking Africa Group and
the Department of Political Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South
Africa.
2013e
Guest Lecturer, 8 August 2013, School of Languages, Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, South Africa.
2013f
Short-Term Fellow, May and July 2013, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African
Studies, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; Participant: International
Conference, 4-6 July, “Conceptualizing ‘Future’: Current Debates in Regional and
Systematic Research”; Workshop & Meeting, 9-10 July, “Conceptualizing ‘Future’.”
2013g
Guest Lecturer, June 2013, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Advanced
Seminar, 18 June; Podcast Interview, 19 June, conducted by Catarina Gomes; 20
June, “Voices of the World” Conversation with Boaventura de Sousa Santos;
Seminar on “History(ies), Memory(ies) and Contemporary Debates in Africa and
Outside Africa.”
2013h
Short-Term Residence, May and June, École normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris,
France: 25 May, « Négritude et philosophie en France au XXe siècle : problèmes,
histoires et controverses », Organisation/Coordination scientifique : Nadia Yala
Kisukidi (IRSE-UNIGE), Ghislain Waterlot (IRSE-UNIGE), Frédéric Worms
(CIEPFC/ Lille III) ; 6 June, « Autour de V.Y. Mudimbe : Introduction à l’œuvre de
Valentin Yves Mudimbe », Department of Philosophy ; 7 June, « La Nuit Sartre » :
Table Ronde, « Sartre et l’Afrique »
2013i
Keynote Lecturer, Conference, “Margins of Philosophy Symposium: Decolonizing
Comparative Methodologies,” 21-22 March 2013, Departments of Philosophy and
African & African Diaspora Studies, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia,
US.
2013j
Panelist, International Colloquium, “Mbeki@70,” Pretoria, South Africa, 13-16
March; Hosted by the TMF Foundation, UNISA and TMALI.
2013k
Keynote Lecture, International Colloquium, “Africa N’Ko: Africa in the World:
Debating the Colonial Library,” 28-31 January, Dakar, Senegal; Hosted by Point Sud
and Codesria, with support from DFG.
2012a
Panelist and Participant, “2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa,” Brown University
(Providence, Rhode Island, US), 7-8 December, 2012; Panelist, “Panel II: Central
and Eastern Africa. Terrorism and the Challenges for Regional Security Department
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of Africana Studies,” 8 December 2012, moderated by Emmanuel Dongala; other
Panelists: Jendayi Frazer, Ambassador William M. Bellamy, Ephraim Isaac and
Horace Campbell.
2012b
Guest Lecturer, November 2012, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada, 1
November 2012.
2012c
Guest Lecturer, July 2012, Bayreuth International School of African Studies,
Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
2012d
Keynote Speaker, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African
Studies: “L’Afrique en mutations : L’Afrique des individus, L’Afrique des
generations/Africa in Transformation: Africa of Individuals, Africa of Generations,”
2-4 May, Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), Université Laval, Québec
City, Québec, Canada.
2011a
Keynote Speaker, “Articulations of Memory in Cinemas” Workshop, 2-3 September,
Audiovisual Media Lab for Studying Cultures and Society, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2011b
Keynote Public Lecturer, “Fanon: 50 Years Later,” 7-9 July. Part of the “Thinking
Africa” Series Launch, 6-22 July, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
2011c
Keynote Speaker, Roundtable on “Race and Higher Education,” CHERTL
Roundtable Series on Critical Issues in Higher Education, 11-13 July. Organized by
Pedro Tabensky and hosted by Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
2011d
Keynote Speaker, Meeting of the Concept Africa Group: “Conceptual History and
Global Translations: The Euro-Asian and African Semantics of the Social and the
Economic,” 25-27 May, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
2011e
Guest Lecturer, Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa (Ontario), Canada.
2011f
Guest Lecturer, Departments of History and African and African-American Studies,
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States.
2010a
Guest Lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional, Bogota,
Colombia.
2010b
Conferencia magistral, Coloquio Internacional: “Africanos y Negros en las
Independencias. ¿Bicentenario para Quienes?,” 24-25 May. Organized by the
Alianza Panafricana de Colombia KONI, Bogota, Colombia.
2010c
Guest Lecturer, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
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2010d
Guest Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island, US.
2009a
Guest Lecturer, KVBC Study Series, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas,
Nevada, United States.
2009b
Guest Lecturer, Seminar of Professor Hilda Varela Barraza, Centro de Estudios de
Asia y África, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009c
Guest Lecturer, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
2009d
Keynote Speaker, Inauguration of the Institute of African Studies, “Africa: New
Visions in a Time of Crisis,” Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2009e
Keynote Speaker, Coloquio Internacional: “En Homenaje a Aimé Césaire. Riquezas
invisibles: pensadores, intelectuales y creadores,” 23-25 September 2009. Fusión de
Horizontes, Facultad de Ingeniería, CU-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009f
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, Coventry,
United Kingdom.
2006
Visiting Professor, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany.
2004a
Keynote Speaker, “The Media, Experience, and Innovation,” Conference on Media
in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
2004b
Lecturer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
2001a
Commonwealth Professor, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2001b
Lecturer, Chaire Cardinal Joseph A. Malula, Institut Saint Eugène de Mazenod,
Kinshasa, Congo.
2001c
Lecturer, Université catholique de Louvain, Ottignies, Belgium.
1999a
Directeur d’Etudes Associé, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
Paris, France.
1999b
Samuel Fischer Professor for Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
1998
Lecturer, [Mellanrum], Diggante, in Stockholm; and at Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala,
Sweden, November.
1997a
Keynote Address and Concluding Remarks, Conference on War and Violence in
Africa, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway: “Western Academic Discourse and
Violence in Africa.”
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1997b
Keynote Speaker, Colloquium on XXth century French and Francophone Literature:
“Reprendre,” Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US.
1997c
Lecturer, University College, London, UK.
1996a
Directeur d’Etudes Associé, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
Paris, France.
1996b
Distinguished Lecturer, La Sorbonne (Rue Mahler), Comité Français et Conseil
Européen des Études Africaines, Paris, France.
1996c
Visiting Professor, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico: “La Paciencia de la
Filosofia.”
1995a
Distinguished Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US.
1995b
Distinguished Lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, US.
1994
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of French and Sociology, University
of California San Diego, San Diego, California, US.
1993a
Directeur d’Etudes Associé, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
Paris, France.
1993b
Ethel W. Githii Lecturer, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, US.
1993c
Louis H. Jordan Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University
of London, London, UK.
1993d
Wallace Distinguished Visiting Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota,
United States.
1992
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, US.
1990a
Visiting Professor, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
1990b
Visiting Professor, Faculté des Lettres, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec,
Canada.
1989
Visiting Professor in History of Ideas, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Universitet Leiden,
Leiden, Netherlands.
1988-1989
Directeur d'Etudes Associé, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
Paris, France; and, Maître de Conférences, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris,
France.
1985
Professor of Structuralism and Semiotics of History, International Summer Institute
of Semiotics and Structural Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, US.
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1974-1978
Visiting Professor in Romance Philology, Bukavu Pedagogical College (Institut
Supérieur Pédagogique), Bukavu, Zaire (Congo).
1974-1976
Visiting Professor in Philosophy of Language, Classics and Romance Philology,
Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Psychology and French, University of
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
1971-1973
Co-Director (with Mr. M. Rombaut), Seminars on African Literature, Belgian
Ministry of Technical Cooperation, Brussels, Belgium.
1971-1972a
Lecturer, Seminar on “Afrikanische Hochschulen und Probleme der Wissenschaftlichen
Forschung,” Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.
1971-1972b
Lecturer, Seminar on “L’Enseignement du français, langue étrangère, au Zaïre,” Université
de Mons, Mons, Belgium.
1970-1971
Lecturer, Seminar on “Historischer Materialismus und Unmittelbare Geschichte,” Universität
Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
1969-1970
Lecturer, Seminar on “L’Héritage occidental et la Conscience Nègre,” Lumen Vitae
Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
C. ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Since 2011
Member, Institute for the African Child, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, US.
2009
Evaluator, Applications for Undergraduate Overseas Travel, Center for International
Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US. Invited to Evaluate by Ms.
Nancy H. Robbins, Director, Center for International Studies.
2007a
Convener, Annual Codesria Social Science Campus, Durban, South Africa, 17-21
December.
2007b
Member, Evaluation Committee, Project for Proposal of a Program in “Intercultural
Studies”; Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.
Since 2004
Nomination Committee, John W. Kluge Prize (a biennial award honoring lifetime
achievement in the humanities with a focus on disciplines not recognized by Nobel
prizes); U.S. Library of Congress, Washington DC, US.
Since 2000
Chairman, International African Institute (IAI), London, UK.
1999
Member, Stanford MacArthur Consortium Steering Committee.
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1998
Editorial Board Chairman, African Philosophy, Carfax Publishing Limited at Abingdon,
Oxfordshire, UK.
Since 1997
Member of the Council, International African Institute (IAI), London, UK.
1993-1995
Member, International Gulbenkian Commission for the Restructuring of the Social
Sciences.
1992
Member, Jury of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (a biennial award
honoring novelists, playwrights, and poets from around the world for exemplary
bodies of work in the field); The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, US.
1992-1994
Member, Board of Directors, U.S. African Studies Association.
1991-1993
Member, Grant-in-Aid Program, American Council of Learned Society, New
York, New York, US.
Since 1989a
Reader, Fellowship Applications, The Wilson Center, Washington DC, US.
Since 1989b
Reader, Comité de lecture, “Bulletin de la Société américaine de Philosophie de Langue
Française,” Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, US.
1989-1992
Member, Discipline Advisory Committee, Council for International Exchange of
Scholars, Fulbright Program, Washington DC, US.
1988-1999
General Secretary of the Society for African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA).
1988-1989
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina,
US.
1986-1988
President, The Herskovits Committee, U.S. African Studies Association, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US.
1981-1986
Member, Joint Committee on African Studies, Social Science Research Council
(SSRC) in conjunction with the American Council of Learned Societies, New York,
New York, US.
1981-1985
Executive Committee Member, African Association of Semiotics.
1978-1985
Vice-President, International Congress of African Studies (CIAF/ICAS).
1978-1980
Member, The Executive Committee, Zairian Center of African Studies, Kinshasa,
Zaire (Congo).
1978
Administrator of the IVth International Congress of African Studies on Africa’s
Dependence, attended by 500 people (December), Kinshasa, Zaire (Congo).
1977-1980
Consultative Director, International African Institute (IAI), London, UK.
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1976-1982
Member, Board of Directors, International Association for World Festival of Black
Arts, Dakar (Senegal) and Paris (France).
1976
Administrator of the International Conference on Languages and Development,
attended by 150 delegates, Kinshasa, Zaire (Congo).
1974-1979
Research Director, Center for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, National
University of Zaire, Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo).
1974-1978
Secretary-General, International Semiology Center (CIS), National University of
Zaire, Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo).
1974-1976
Secretary-General, Zairian Linguistics Association, Zaire (Congo).
1973-1978
Secretary-General, International Congress of African Studies (CIAF/ICAS).
1971-1974
Director, Center for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, (CELTA), National
University of Zaire, Zaire (Congo).
1970-1972
Director, African Sociological Archives (Archives Africaines de Sociologie), Paris, France.
1969
Director, Seminar on Literacy, organized by CLAP Association, Fontenay-sous-Bois,
France.
V. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
A. Research and Editorships:
1)
General Editor, Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metissés, Stanford University Press, Stanford,
California, US, 1995-2000.
2)
Co-Editor, Philosophy and Postcoloniality, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, US,
established 2000 (now dormant).
3)
Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy, Springer Science and
Business Media (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers), Dordrecht, Netherlands. In progress.
B. Served or serving on Editorial Boards of journals and periodicals:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
Africa, (International African Institute, London, UK).
African Development (Codesria, Dakar, Senegal).
African Studies Review, (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, US).
Anthology of Anthropology, (Herbert Publications, Bedfordshire, UK and Hyderabad, India).
Archives of Anthropology.
Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades (Bogotá, Colombia).
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7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise, (Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, US).
Bulletin de Théologie Africaine, (Association œcuménique des théologiens africaines, Kinshasa,
Congo).
Bulletin du Codesria, (Codesria, Dakar, Senegal).
Canadian Journal of African Studies, (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, (EHESS, Paris, France).
Cahiers de Littérature et de Linguistique Appliquée, (UNAZA/CELTA, Lubumbashi, Congo).
Cahiers des Religions Africaines, (Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo).
Contention, (University of California Press; U.S. Dept. of History, Los Angeles, California,
US).
Cultural Anthropology: Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, (New York University Press,
New York, US).
Journal of Eastern and Central African Studies (Routledge, London, UK).
Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies, (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North
Carolina, US).
La Revue africaine du savoir.
Public Culture, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US: University of Pennsylvania; and Chicago,
Illinois, US: University of Chicago).
Revue Ouest-Africaine des Langues Vivantes, (West African Modern Languages Association,
Ibadan, Nigeria).
World Literature Today, (University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, US).
Transition: An International Review, (Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, US).
C. Scientific Advisor to “Ota Benga: A Case Study of American Racial Attitudes,
1900-1916”: A project envisioned as a two-hour narrative dramatic film by FireThorn
Productions, New York, Madison Lacy Jr., 2112 Broadway, Suite 402A.
D. Consultancies:
1)
2)
3)
4)
7)
The National Institute of Mental Health, Washington DC, US, 1987.
The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York, US.
Institute for Independent Education, Washington DC, US.
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria), Dakar,
Senegal.
Présence Africaine and “African Society of Culture,” Paris, France.
Alumnus, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Abteilung für Grundsatzfragen
Ubberregionale Programe, Bonn, Germany.
Reader, University Presses of the United States, Canada and Europe.
VI.
LEARNED SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
5)
6)
Since 2009
Member, Intercultural Interventions (International Research Group of Intercultural
Studies).
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Since 2000
Chairman, International African Institute (IAI), University of London, London, UK.
Since 1989
Member, Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, West Lafayette, Indiana,
US.
Member, The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, New Hampshire, US.
Member, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Hanover, New Hampshire,
US.
2006-Present Membre correspondant honoraire, Belgian Academy of Overseas Sciences (Académie Royale
des Sciences d'Outre-Mer), Brussels, Belgium.
1987-2005
Academic Advisor, Institute for Independent Education, Washington DC, US.
1984-1999
Member, African Studies Association, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, US.
1982-1984
Member, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, US.
1981-1982a
Member, Scientific Committee, Third International Meeting of French Studies,
Montreal, Québec, Canada.
1981-1982b
Member, Congress of the International Society of Classical Studies, Université Laval,
Québec, Canada.
1978-2006
Membre correspondant, Belgian Academy of Overseas Sciences (Académie Royale des
Sciences d’Outre-Mer), Brussels, Belgium.
1973-1980
Member, Société des Études Latines, Paris, France.
1971-1980
Scientific Advisor, Centre d'Études et de Documentation sur l'Afrique Centrale,
CEDAF, Brussels, Belgium.
1969-1980
Member, Laboratory of Comparative Ethnology and Sociology, University Paris X
Nanterre, Paris, France.
VII.
PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS AUTHORED ALONE
2014
África: pensamiento y controversias. Mexico City: Revista Estudios de Asia y África, Centro
de Estudios Asia y África, El Colegio de México, 255 p.
2013a
On African Fault Lines: Meditations on Alterity Politics. Scottsville, South Africa:
University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, 448 p.
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2013b
A Invenção de África. Gnose, Filosofia e a Ordem do Conhecimento. Mangualde and Ramada,
Portugal: Edições Pedago, 276 p.
2007
L'invenzione dell’Africa, translated by Giusy Muzzopappa. Rome, Italy: Meltemi, 319 p.
2006
Cheminements. Carnets de Berlin (avril-juin 1999). Québec City, Québec, Canada: Éditions
Humanitas, 207 p.
1997
Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa. London, UK & Atlantic
Highlands, New Jersey, US: Athlone Press, 231 p.
1994a
Les corps glorieux des mots et des êtres. Esquisse d'un jardin africain à la Bénédictine. Montréal,
Québec, Canada and Paris, France: Humanitas and Présence Africaine, 228 p.
1994b
The Idea of Africa. Bloomington, Indiana, US and London, UK: Indiana University
Press and James Currey, 256 p.
1991
Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality, and Politics in Central Africa. Madison,
Wisconsin, US: University of Wisconsin Press, 238 p.
1989
Shaba deux. Les Carnets de Mère Marie-Gertrude, récit (novel). Paris, France: Présence
Africaine, 151 p.
1988
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. Bloomington,
Indiana, US: Indiana University Press, 256 p.
1982
L’Odeur du père. Essai sur des limites de la science et de la vie en Afrique Noire. Paris, France:
Présence Africaine, 203 p.
1981
Visage de la philosophie et de la théologie contemporaines au Zaïre. Brussels, Belgium: Cedaf
Cahiers du CEDAF 1-4, 44 p.
1979a
Air: Étude sémantique. Viennam Austria: Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica, 454 p.
1979b
L’Ecart, récit (novel). Paris, France: Présence Africaine, p. 160. Translated into Dutch
by Jef Geeraerts as De Afstand, Antwerpen, Belgium-Amsterdam, Netherlands:
Manteau, 1989, p. 143; and into English by M. de Jaeger as The Rift, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, US: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, 126 p.
1976a
Carnets d’Amérique. Septembre-novembre 1974. Paris, France: Éditions Saint-Germaindes-Prés, 202 p.
1976b
Contribution à l'étude des variations du genre grammatical des mots français d'origine latine. Étude
diachronique et synchronique. Lubumbashi, Congo: Celta, 323 p.
1976c
Français I. Les Structures fondamentales, livre de l'élève 3è primaire. Kinshasa, Congo: Centre
de Recherches Pédagogiques, 220 p.
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1976d
La Bel immonde, récit (novel). Paris, France: Présence Africaine, 173 p. Translated into
Portuguese by Sergio Bath as O Belo Imundo, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editore Atica, 1980,
128 p.; into German by Peter Schunck as Auch wir sind schmutzige Flusse, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 1982, 186 p.; and, into English by M. de
Jaeger as Before the Birth of the Moon, New York, US: Simon and Schuster, 1989, 168 p.
1974
Les Fuseaux parfois…poèmes. Paris, France: Éditions Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 44 p.
1973a
Entre les eaux, Dieu, un prêtre, la révolution (novel). Paris, France: Présence Africaine, p.
190. Translated into English by Stephen Becker as Between Tides, New York, US:
Simon and Schuster, 1991, 160 p.
1973b
Entretailles précédé de Fulgurances d'une lézarde, poèmes. Paris, France: Éditions SaintGermain-des-Prés, 82 p.
1973c
L’Autre face du royaume. Introduction à la critique des langages en folie. Lausanne,
Switzerland: L’Age d’homme, 157 p.
1972a
Autour de la Nation. Leçon de civisme, essai. Kinshasa, Congo: Éditions du Mont Noir, 95
p.
1972b
Français 3è année : Les Structures fondamentales I. Kinshasa, Congo: Centre de Recherches
Pédagogiques, 174 p.
1972c
Français 4è année : Les Structures fondamentales II. Kinshasa, Congo: Centre de
Recherches Pédagogiques, 222 p.
1972d
Initiation au Français, 2 volumes. Kinshasa, Congo: Celta.
1972e
Réflexions sur la vie quotidienne. Kinshasa, Congo: Éditions du Mont Noir, 72 p.
1971
Déchirures, poèmes. Kinshasa, Congo: Éditions du Mont Noir, 48 p.
B. BOOKS CO-AUTHORED
1996
Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social
Sciences, ed. I. Wallerstein. Stanford, California, US: Stanford University Press, 124 p.
1991
‘Reprendre’ in Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art, ed. S. Vogel. New York and
Prestel, Munich: The Center for African Art, 276 p.
1976a
Le Vocabulaire politique Zaïrois. Une étude de sociolinguistique, with Eloko a N.O., Losso
Gazi, Matumele M. and N.Y. Rubango. Lubumbashi, Congo: Celta, 118 p.
1976b
Procédés d'enrichissement et création de termes nouveaux dans un groupe de langues de l’Afrique
Centrale, with Mombo Lutete, Kilanga M. and Lupukisa Wasamba. Paris, France:
UNESCO, 25 p.
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1974a
Français: Les Structures fondamentales IV: with A. Tashdjian, M. Le Boul and M. Pierre.
Kinshasa, Congo: Centre de Recherches pédagogiques.
1974b
Le Prix du Péché. Essai de Psychanalyse Existentielle des Traditions Européennes et Africaines,
with J.L. Vincke. Kinshasa, Congo: Éditions du Mont Noir, 54 p.
1973
Français: Les Structures fondamentales III, with P. Detienne. Kinshasa, Congo: Centre de
Recherches pédagogiques.
C. EDITING (Books and Special Issues of Journals).
2013a
Recontextualizing Self & Other Issues in Africa: The Practice of a Conference, with Diane
Ciekawy, Itsuhiro Hazama, Eunice Kamaara, Susan M. Kilonzo, Mike Kuria, Mary
Mugo-Wanjau, Rose Namubiru-Kirumira, Kimani Njogu, Charles B. Rwabukwali,
Naomi L. Shitemi and Anthony Simpson. Trenton, New Jersey, US: Africa World
Press / Red Sea Press, 176 p.
2013b
Contemporary African Cultural Productions/Productions culturelles africaines contemporaines.
Dakar, Senegal: Codesria, 328 p.
2007
The Normal and Its Orders: Reading Georges Canguilhem, with Laura Kerr and Godé Iwele.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Éditions Malaïka, 182 p.
1999
“Diaspora and Immigration,” with Sabine Engel. SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 98 (1),
340 p.
1997a
“An African Practice of Philosophy.” Special Issue, SAPINA: Society for African Philosophy
in North America X (2), 444 p.
1997b
“Nations, Identities, Cultures.” SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 94 (4), 223 p.
1993a
Africa and the Disciplines. The contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and
Humanities, with Robert Bates and Jean O'Barr. Chicago, Illinois, US: The University
of Chicago Press, 245 p.
1993b
“History Making in Africa,” with B. Jewsiewicki. Special Issue, Studies in the Philosophy of
History, Beiheft 32, 125 p.
1992
The Surreptitious Speech: Présence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987. Chicago,
Illinois, US: The University of Chicago Press, XXVI + 463 p.
1986
1980
“Africanism.” Special Issue, Canadian Journal of African Studies 20 (1), 154 p.
Africa's Dependence. La Dépendance de l’Afrique. Paris, France: Berger-Levrault, 792 p.
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1978
Actes de la Troisième Table Ronde des Centres de Linguistique Appliquée d’Afrique Francophone.
Lubumbashi, Congo: Centre International de Sémiologie.
1977
Actes du Colloque Interafricain de Kiswishi sur les langues Africaines. Lubumbashi, Congo:
Centre International de Sémiologie.
D. ARTICLES.
(Articles published in newspapers are not included)
2013a
“Acerca de la filosofía africana,” with Barry Hallen. In La Filosofía en nuestro tiempo
histórico, eds. Felix Valdés García and Yohanka León del Río. Havana, Cuba: Ruth
Casa Editorial: pp. 19-62.
2013b
“Afterword: A Meditation of the Convener.” In Contemporary African Cultural
Productions/Productions culturelles africaines contemporaines, ed. V-Y Mudimbe. Dakar,
Senegal: Codesria.
2013c
“Au Nom de la gratitude : une méditation.” In Entre inscription et prescriptions. V.Y.
Mudimbe et l’engendrement de la parole, ed. Justin K. Bisanswa. Paris, France: Honoré
Champion.
2013d
“Coda: On the Practice of a Conference,” in Recontextualizing Self & Other Issues in
Africa: The Practice of a Conference, eds. Diane Ciekawy, Itsuhiro Hazama, Eunice
Kamaara, Susan M. Kilonzo, Mike Kuria, V.Y. Mudimbe, Mary Mugo-Wanjau, Rose
Namubiru-Kirumira, Kimani Njogu, Charles B. Rwabukwali, Naomi L. Shitemi and
Anthony Simpson. Trenton, New Jersey, US: Africa World Press/Red Sea Press.
Publication in progress.
2013e
Préface à Franck Dalmas’ Lectures Phénoménologiques en Littérature Française: De Gustave
Flaubert à Malika Mokeddem. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG.
2013f
“Reading There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra,” Journal of Asian and African
Studies 48 (6): pp. 671-682. Special Issue on Chinua Achebe: The Igbo, Pogrom, Biafra War
and Genocide in Nigeria, Guest Editor: E.C. Ejiogu.
2013g
“Réflexions sur le pouvoir de l’épistémologie. Un dialogue entre Valentin Mudimbé
et Mathieu Hilgers,” Interview with Mathieu Hilgiers. Anthropologie et Sociétés 37 (1) :
pp. 137-160. Special Issue on Médiations interdisciplinaires : variations africanistes, Editors:
Sylvie Capitant and Mathieu Hilgers.
2012a
“A propos d’un passe-vue conceptuel. Une méditation sur « le tiers » et des histoires
conceptuelles d’un monde. En l’honneur de F. Éboussi Boulaga.” In Au-delà des
lignes/Beyond the Lines : Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, une pratique philosophique, eds. Lidia
Procesi and Kasereka Kavwahirehi. Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic
Publishers: pp. 387-440.
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2012b
Foreword to Zubairu Wai’s Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and
the War in Sierra Leone. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan: xiii – xvii.
2012c
“Lex perfecta praecepta recta. Méditations sur les médiations.” Revue Philosophique de
Kimwenza 6 (septembre 2011): pp. 27-52.
2012d
“On African Ways of Believing,” with Susan M. Kilonzo. In The Wiley-Blackwell
Companion to African Religions, ed. Elias K. Bongmba. Hoboken, New Jersey, US:
Wiley-Blackwell: pp. 41-61.
2012e
Préface à Martin Kalulambi Pongo’s Dieu dans tous ses états : Mutation socioreligieuse en
Afrique centrale. Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic Publishers.
2011
“In the House of Libya: A Meditation.” In African Athena: New Agendas, eds. Daniel
Orrells, Gurmindar K. Bhambra, Tessa Roynon and Martin Bernal. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press: 191-209.
2010a
“En el Silencio: Una Meditación.” Universitas Humanística 69 (enero-junio): 13-34.
2010b
“‘La nuit de foi pourtant’: Letter to Eric Van Grasdorff.” In 50 Jahre afrikanische UnAbhängigkeiten – Eine (seblst) kritische Bilanz, ed. Eric Van Grasdorff. Douala and
Berlin, Germany: AfricAvenir: 154-169.
2010c
“Masques aux quatre points: A Meditation.” SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 109 (2):
431-446.
2010d
“On Humiliation.” Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies: Breaking the Cycle of
Humiliation, online publication. http://humiliationstudies.org/documents/evelin/
MudimbeReviewGenderHumiliationOctober_9.pdf
2010e
“Pour Fabien: A Meditation.” In Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, L’audace de penser, ed.
Ambroise Kom. Paris, France: Présence Africaine.
2010f
Preface to Susan M. Kilonzo’s Christian Diversity and Community Development : Role of
Christian Denominations in Human Physical, Social, Cultural and Spiritual Development in
Vihiga District, Kenya. Saarbrücken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
2010g
“Quelle Histoire !” Introduction to Lubumbashi 1910-2010: mémoire d’une ville
industrielle, eds. Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Dibwe dia Mwembu and Rosario Giordano.
Paris, France: L’Harmattan.
2010h
“Within Silence: A Mediation.” Forthcoming. In Beyond Silence: Meaning and Memory in the
Noise of Haiti's Present, ed. Winter Schneider. Coconut Creek, Florida, US: Caribbean
Studies Press.
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2009a
“About a Will to Truth: A Meditation on Terror.” In Itinéraires et trajectoires. Mélanges
Offerts à Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji-Madiya, ed. Pius Nkashama Ngandu. Paris, France:
L’Harmattan: 227-236.
2009b
“Au nom de la similitude.” In Dire le mal 4: Balises 13-14, ed. Didier Devillez.
Brussels: Cahiers de Poétique des Archives et Musée de la Littérature: 67-92.
Translated from English into French by Amélie Schmitz.
2009c
“Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude.” In Media and Identity in Africa, eds. Kimani
Njogu and John F.M. Middleton. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburg University Press: 308324.
2009d
“En la Casa de Libia: Una Meditación.” Tabula Rasa 11(julio-diciembre): 141-193.
2009e
“Et Nunc Per Hoc Signum: A Meditation on Genitives in Everyday Life Stories.”
SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 108 (3): 419-447.
2009f
“Ibi Pote Ualere.” In Fabien Eboussi-Boulaga. La Philosophe du Muntu, ed. Ambroise
Kom. Paris, France: Karthala: 220-239.
2009g
“Kata Nomon: Carta a René Devisch.” Universitas Humanística 67 (enero-junio): 257305.
2009h
“Kata Nomon: Letter to René Devisch.” Codesria Bulletin 1-2: 31-49.
2009i
“Kata Nomon: Lettre à René Devisch.” Bulletin du Codesria 1-2: 32-52. Translated
from English into French by Paul Komba and Pascale de Villers; reviewed by Olivier
Gloag and V.Y. Mudimbe.
2009j
“Lex Perfecta Praecepta Recta: Mediteren over bemiddelen.” In Congo in België:
Koloniale cultuur in de metropool. eds., Bambi Ceuppens, David Van Reybrouck and
Vincent Viaene. Leuven, Belgium: Universitaire Pers Leuven: 315-333. Translated by
Bambi Ceuppens from the English text, “Lex Perfecta Praecepta Recta: A
Meditation on Meditations.”
2009k
“On Humiliation.” Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (2009).
http://www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin042.php#mudimbe (October
21, 2009), p. 5.
2009l
Preface to Kasereka Kavwahirehi’s L’Afrique, entre passé et Futur. L’urgence d’un choix
publique de l’intelligence. Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Oxford & Wien: Peter
Lang: 17-21.
2009m
Preface to Yacouba Konaté’s La Biennale de Dakar. Pour une esthétique de la création
contemporaine africaine. Tête à tête avec Adorno. Paris, France: L’Harmattan: 7-12.
2008a
Preface to Jean Jolly’s L'Afrique et son environnement européen et asiatique. Paris, France:
Harmattan; introduction by Brigitte Senut.
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2008b
“Quam Metuendus Est Locus Iste: Una meditación.” Revista de Filosofia 40 (122): 65111.
2007
“What is a Line?: On paradoxes about allegories of identity and alterity.” Quest XXI
(1-2): 23-61.
2006a
Preface to Silvia Riva’s Nouvelle histoire de la littérature du Congo-Kinshasa. Paris, France:
Harmattan.
2006b
“Que es una Línea?: Sobre las Paradojas en torno a las Alegorías de Identidad y
Alteridad.” Boletín de Antropología 20 (37): 327-357.
2005a
“An African Practice of Philosophy: A Personal Testimony.” Africa e Mediterraneo 53:
12-18. Also in Quest XIX (1-2): 21-37.
2005b
“Exodus as Allegory: Africa in Theories of Difference.” MEDIAS (December), p.
52. Also in Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies 2
(2009), p. 79.
2005c
“Go Down Moses: A Meditation on Slave Narratives.” In Approaching Sea Changes:
Metamorphoses and Migrations across the Atlantic, ed. A. Oboe. Padua, Italy: Unipress.
http://www.maldura.unipd.it/seachanges/papers.html (7 December 2009), p. 14.
2005d
“Ut Recte Ualeant: Languages in 3rd Century Roman Africa.” In Latinité et identité
haïtienne : Entre la tradition et la modernité. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Educam–Editora
Universitária Candido Mendes and Académie de la Latinité: 296-317.
2004a
“De la cosmologie dogon. Une méditation” Ponts 4: 235-248.
2004b
“Une Genèse Africaine.” In State, Power and New Political Actors in Postcolonial Africa:
Annali della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli – Anno XXXVIII. Milan, Italy: Editore
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: 1-6.
2002
Preface to Marie Gevers’ Des Mille collines aux neuf volcans. Brussels, Belgium: Archives
et Musée de la Littérature: 5-8.
2000a
Preface to Silvia Riva’s Rulli di tam-tam dalla torre di Babele: storia della letteratura del
Congo. Milan, Italy: LED Edizioni Universitaire: 11-18.
2000b
“Race, Identity, Politics, and History.” In Journal of African History 41 (2): 291-294.
2000c
“The Politics of War: A Meditation.” In Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and
Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa, eds. Finar Braathen, Morten Boas & G. Jermund
Saether. London, UK & New York, US: MacMillan: 23-36.
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1998a
“On Diversity and Meeting Worlds.” In Global Encounters in the World of Art: Collisions
of Tradition and Modernity, ed. Ria Lavrijsen. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Royal Tropical
Institute: 72-90.
1998b
“What is Comparative Literature Anyway?” Stanford Humanities Review 6 (1): 164-71.
1997
Introduction: “Inventions and Images of Africa.” In New Encyclopedia of Africa, eds.
John Middleton & Joseph C. Miller. New York, US and London, UK: Macmillan,
Simon & Schuster: xxxiii.
1996a
Afterword: “The Idea of Luba.” In Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History, eds.
M.N. Roberts & Allen F. Roberts. New York, US: Prestel and The Museum for
African Art: 245-247.
1996b
“Therapeutic Signs and the Prose of Life in Black Africa.” SAPINA IX (1-2): 85132.
1995
“Meeting the Challenge of Legitimacy,” with Bogumil Jewsiewicki. SAPINA VIII (12): 79-102; and Daedalus 124 (3), Summer 1995: 191-207.
1994a
“For Saïd,” with Bogumil Jewsiewicki. Transition 63: 34-49.
1994b
“Reading and Teaching Pierre Bourdieu.” Transition 61: 144-60.
1993a
“African Athena.” Transition 58: 114-123.
1993b
“Espace africain et mémoire.” In Constructions identitaires : questionnements theoriques et
etudes de cas, eds. Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Jocelyn Létourneau. Québec, Canada:
CÉLAT: 85-98.
1993c
“From ‘Primitive’ to ‘memoriae loci’.” Human Studies 16 (1992a): 101-10.
1993d
“Is God Neutral.” Transition 56: 100-12.
1993e
“Saint Paul-Michel Foucault.” Transition 57: 122-127.
1993f
“The Power of the Greek Paradigm.” SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 92 (2): 361-85.
1992
Preface to Henry Bauchau, Le Régiment noir. Geneva, Switzerland: Éditions Labor et
Fides: 7-11.
1991
“Letters of Reference.” Transition 53: 62-76.
1990a
“Afrique: l’écriture de l’histoire,” with B. Jewsiewicki. Courrier de l'Unesco (March): 4042.
1990b
“Les Univers Personnels.” Pen International 40 (2): 53-54.
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1990c
“Which Idea of Africa? Herskovits’ Cultural Relativism.” October 55: 93-104.
1988a
“African Theology as a Political Praxis: Vincent Mulago and the Catholic Theological
Discourse: 1950-80.” Revue Présence Africaine 145: 86-103.
1988b
Introduction: “Debate and Commentary.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 22 (2):
288-334.
1987a
“I as an Other. Sartre and Lévi-Strauss or an (im)possible Dialogue on the Cogito.”
Les Nouvelles Rationalités Africaines 2 (8): 597-611. Also in the American Journal of
Semiotics 6 (1), 1988-89: 57-68.
1987b
“Where is the Real Thing? Psychoanalysis and African Mythical Narratives.” Cahiers
d’Etudes Africaines 107/108: 311-27.
1986a
“African Art as a Question Mark.” African Studies Review 29 (1): 3-4.
1986b
“Lemba: A Narrative of Social Order.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 10: 277-82.
1986c
“On the Question of an African Philosophy: The Case of French Speaking Africa.”
In Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire, eds. Isaac James Mowoe and Richard
Bjornson. New York and London: Greenwood Press: 89-113.
1986d
“Placide Tempels and African Philosophy.” Bulletin des Séances Académie Royale des
Sciences d'Outre-Mer 32 (3): 349-361.
1985a
“African Gnosis. Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge: An Introduction.”
African Studies Review 28 (2-3): 149-233.
1985b
“African Literature: Myth or Reality.” In African Literature Studies: The Present State, ed.
Stephen Arnold. Washington DC, US: Three Continent Press: 7-15.
1985c
“African Philosophy: An Existence De Facto.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 19
(2): 453-457.
1985d
“Espace exotique, Espace refusé dans The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) de Robert
Burton.” Cahiers de Linguistique 11 (1-2): 53-66.
1984a
“Révélation et domination.” (On F. Eboussi-Boulaga's Christianisme sans Fétiche).
Bulletin of African Theology V (9).
1984b
“Variations sur la patience du dialogue.” Recherche, Pédagogie et Culture 59-60 (x): 28-31.
1983a
“African Philosophy as an Ideological Practice.” African Studies Review 26 (3-4): 133154.
1983b
“An African Criticism of Christianity.” Geneva-Africa xxi (2): 91-100.
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1983c
“La Technique du trompe l’oeil dans les poèmes d'amour swahili.” Revue Présence
Africaine 126 (3): 403-412.
1983d
“Pour Jacques Howlett.” Présence Africaine 126 (2): 177-179.
1982a
“In Memoriam: l’Abbé Alexis Kagamé.” Recherche, Pédagogie et Culture 56 (ix): 74-78.
1982b
“Invisible et catégories du double dans 'Valentine' de George Sand.” Friends of George
Sand Newsletter 5 (2): 57-62
1982c
“La Pensée africaine contemporaine 1954-1980. Répertoire chronologique des Ouvrages
de Langue Française.” Recherche, Pédagogie et Culture 56 (ix): 68-73.
1982d
“Panorama de la pensée africaine contemporaine de langue française.” Recherche,
pédagogie et Culture 56: 15-29.
1981a
“L’Acculturation dans l’Afrique Romaine au IIIe siècle p. C.N.” In Combats pour un
Christianisme Africain, ed. Alphonse M. Ngindu. Kinshasa, Congo: School of Catholic
Theology: 89-126.
1981b
“Signes thérapeutiques et prose de la vie en Afrique noire.” Social Science and Medicine
15B: 195-211.
1981c
“Sur l’Eglise Catholique au Zaïre.” Cahiers des Religions Africaines, Kinshasa XIV (2728): 73-81.
1981d
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