By Mudimbe, V.Y., Indiana U. Press, 241pp, UK/USA, 1988. What is Africa? What does it mean to be African? What is the relationship between philosophy and “Africanism”? Proceeding from these questions, Mudimbe (who teaches comparative literature at Duke University) undertakes an “archaeology of knowledge” of Africa south of the Sahara. (more…)
Theory & Method
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The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge
Arturo Escobar: Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. A must-read for anybody involved in ‘development’. Escobar examines the discourse and apparatus of development since 1949, and the construction of the notion of ‘under-development’ in economic theories. (more…)
Afrika ist im Aufbruch, Afrika ist die Zukunft
Gesammelte Reden von Prof. Kum’ a Ndumbe III. zu Interkulturalität und Kulturdialog, und zum neuen Aufbruch in Afrika. (more…)
Kum’ a Ndumbe III.: Wettkampf um die Globalisierung Afrikas
Gesammelte Reden von Prof. Kum’ a Ndumbe III. über die Beziehungen Afrikas zu Europa und zur Außenwelt, über Kolonialpolitik, Nationalsozialismus und Rassismus. (more…)