Central Africa
DRC
Contemporary
English
Non-fiction
A philosophical inquiry into how Africa was invented by colonial discourse through missionary accounts, anthropology, and philosophy. Mudimbe shows how the colonial library created a distorted knowledge of Africa that Africans themselves have often had to inhabit.
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Foundational text in postcolonial and African studies; shaped an entire generation of scholars
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editorial-summarynot primary textA philosophical inquiry into how Africa was invented by colonial discourse through missionary accounts, anthropology, and philosophy. Mudimbe shows how the colonial library created a distorted knowledge of Africa that Africans themselves have often had to inhabit. Foundational text in postcolonial and African studies; shaped an entire generation of scholars
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