Valentine-Yves Mudimbe, 83, died; African scientist challenged the West

Mr. Mudimbe was an unapologicic. “What is” What is African “question? Or how to ‘assign a’ African cultures? ‘ Today, as an anthropology of Africa’s anthropology, history, theology, as a SubelGry, such as the SubelGry, and this is the level of my project. “

Valentine-IVs Mudimbe, on December 8, 1941, in Katanga, Belgium, a civil servant Tshiluila and Victorine Ngalula was born in Katanga province of Gustave. At a young age, in 1991, in 1991, the Congo in the Congende in the Congo “Benedictine as a seminarist, Benedictine began to live with the monks.” He was not in contact with the foreign world and my family and did not really strike. “

It was reminded when he was 17 or 18, this time he decided to be a monk between Gihindamuyaga’s “white fathers” of Gihindamuyaga. However, in the early 1920s, “completely frankofonized” and left religious life and entered Kinshasa Lovanium University, who graduated in 1966 with Rome Language Philology. In 1970, he received a doctorate in philosophy and literature from Louvain Catholic University in Belgium. Then he returned to the Congo to teach.

In the 1970s, Mr. Mudimbe, between other articles, all translated into English: “Entre Les Eaux” (1973), published as “among the water” in English; Le Bel Imonde (“Before the birth of the month”, 1976); and “l’écart” (“Rift,” 1979). The main characters of these novels are “they think it is impossible to connect themselves to something firm” scientist Nadia Yala Kisukidi commentary In Le Monde.

At the end of the late 1970s, Mr. Mobutu was “responsible, Mideology and such things, such things, such things, like these things,” said Mr. Malian, said, “I did not think of myself, and I do not think like a politician.” After himself in the United States, his attention was focused on Essay and philosophy; Among other books, L’Odeur du Père (1982), “Fair and Tales” (1991) and “Faith Tales” (1997) wrote.