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Valentin Mudimbe

Valentin Mudimbe

Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature
Literature
vmudimbe@duke.edu
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
115 Art Museum, Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27701

Selected Publications

África: pensamiento y controversias

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Reading There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Journal Article Journal of Asian and African Studies · December 1, 2013 Here is an intellectually dense reading of Chinua Achebe's personal history of Biafra, which deconstructs and illuminates the book. Deconstructive components expose elements of Achebe's narrative that fly beyond the intellectual grasp of his hasty castigat ... Full text Cite

A cerca de la filosofía africana

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Afterword: A Meditation of the Convener

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Coda: On the Practice of a Conference

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