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Duke University Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Telephone: 001 (919) 684-4240 Program in Literature Fax: 001 (919) 684-3598 Box 90670 Email: mwr079@gmail.com 1316 Campus Drive Durham, NC 27708-0670

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 2744-

2745 (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 Afro- American 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.

1 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) Africa, (International African Institute, London, UK). 2) African Development (Codesria, Dakar, Senegal). 3) African Studies Review, (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, US). 4) Anthology of Anthropology, (Herbert Publications, Bedfordshire, UK and Hyderabad, India). 5) Archives of Anthropology. 6) Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades (Bogotá, Colombia).

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7) Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise, (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, US).

8) Bulletin de Théologie Africaine, (Association œcuménique des théologiens africaines, Kinshasa, Congo).

9) Bulletin du Codesria, (Codesria, Dakar, Senegal). 10) Canadian Journal of African Studies, (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada). 11) Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, (EHESS, Paris, France). 12) Cahiers de Littérature et de Linguistique Appliquée, (UNAZA/CELTA, Lubumbashi, Congo). 13) Cahiers des Religions Africaines, (Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo). 14) Contention, (University of California Press; U.S. Dept. of History, Los Angeles, California,

US). 15) Cultural Anthropology: Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, (New York University Press,

New York, US). 16) Journal of Eastern and Central African Studies (Routledge, London, UK). 17) Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. 18) Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies, (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North

Carolina, US). 19) La Revue africaine du savoir. 20) Public Culture, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US: University of Pennsylvania; and Chicago,

Illinois, US: University of Chicago). 21) Revue Ouest-Africaine des Langues Vivantes, (West African Modern Languages Association,

Ibadan, Nigeria). 22) World Literature Today, (University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, US). 23) 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) The National Institute of Mental Health, Washington DC, US, 1987. 2) The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York, US. 3) Institute for Independent Education, Washington DC, US. 4) Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria), Dakar,

Senegal. 5) Présence Africaine and “African Society of Culture,” Paris, France. 6) Alumnus, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Abteilung für Grundsatzfragen

Ubberregionale Programe, Bonn, Germany. 7) Reader, University Presses of the United States, Canada and Europe.

VI. LEARNED SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

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-Germain-des-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 Saint-Germain-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 “Africanism.” Special Issue, Canadian Journal of African Studies 20 (1), 154 p.

1980 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 Un-

Abhängigkeiten – 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: 308-324.

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): 257-305.

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): 65-

111. 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): 85-132.

1995 “Meeting the Challenge of Legitimacy,” with Bogumil Jewsiewicki. SAPINA VIII (1-2): 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): 40-42.

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): 133-154.

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 (27-28): 73-81.

1981d “Sur le Rapport Secret du Cardinal de Lavigerie.” In the 100th year celebration of the Catholic Church in Congo. Kinshasa, Congo, 1980.

1980 “La Culture et la science au Zaïre : 1960-1975.” In Du Congo au Zaire 1960-1980. Essai de bilan, ed. J. Vanderlinden. Brussels, Belgium: Centre de Recherche et d'Information socio-politiques (CRISP), p. 420.

1979a “Le Chant d’un Africain sous les Antonins. Lecture du Peruigilium Veneris.” In Roma et Africa. Rome, Italy: L’Erma di Bretschneider: 399-409.

1979b “Le Christianisme vu par un Africain.” Cahiers des Religions Africaines II: 165-76. 1979c “L’Espace et le temps.” In Apprendre le français: permanences et mutations (Proceedings of the

IVth International Conference of French Culture and Language Professors). Paris, France: Centre internationale d’Études pédagogiques: 253-258.

1979d “Témoignage.” In Mélanges L.G. Damas. Paris, France: Présence Africaine: 39-48; 357-363.

1978a “Civilisation noire et Eglise Catholique.” Recherche, Pédagogie et Culture 33 (6): 39-41.

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1978b “Civilisation Noire et Eglise Catholique. Vers un ‘decolonization’ du catholicisme africain?” Cahiers des Religions Africaines Kinshasa 13 (25): 145-151.

1978c “Langues africaines et langues européennes en Afrique noire : problèmes de collaboration.” In L’amélioration et la coordination de la contribution européenne à l’enseignement des langues en Afrique, ed. R. Renard. Mons, Belgium: Université d’Etat, Département de Linguistique: 50-56. Also in Groupe de recherche sur les contacts de cultures 1: 5-14.

1978d “Le Zaïre.” In Inventaire des Études Linguistiques sur les pays d’Afrique noire d'Expression française sur Madagascar. Paris, France: Conseil International de la Langue Française: 511-531.

1978e “Les Etudes Classiques au Zaïre.” In Recherches, Pédagogie et Culture 7 (41):27-30.

1978f “Libération d’une parole africaine. Notes sur quelques limites du discours scientifique.” In Philosophie et Libération : actes de la 2eme Semaine philosophique de Kinshasa du 18 au 22 avril 1977. Kinshasa, Congo: Faculté de Théologie Catholique: 55-59.

1978g “Niam M’paya: Aux sources de la philosophie africaine.” In Hommage à Alioune Diop : Fondateur de Presence Africaine. Paris, France: Presence Africaine: 192-201.

1977a “De la Satire comme témoin historique. Réflexions à propos de l’Apocolonquitose du Divin Claude de Sénèque.” In Mélanges offerts à L.S. Senghor, Dakar-Abidjan-Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Africaines: 315-323.

1977b “Des Philosophes en mal de développement. ” Zaïre-Afrique 108 (May): 453-458.

1977c “Langue et développement,” with B. Kempf. In Les Relations entre les langues Négro-Africaines et la langue française. Paris, France: Conseil International de la Langue Française: 502-513.

1977d “Problèmes théoriques des sciences sociales en Afrique.” In Cultures africaines ; problèmes et perspectives. Lubumbashi, Congo: Club Muntu, CELTA: 33-41.

1976a “Bertine Fuminer ou un plaidoyer du ressentiment.” Lectures africaines ; bulletin du CELA 3 (2): 73-87.

1976b “Coopération inter-universitaire et Dialogue des Cultures.” La Revue de l’AUPELF 14 (1): 34-54.

1976c “Philosophie, idéologie, linguistique.” In La place de la philosophie dans le développement humain et culturel du Zaïre et de l'Afrique ; rapport complet du séminaire national des philosophes zaïrois, du 1er au 4 juin 1976. Lubumbashi, Congo: Campus de Lubumbashi: 148-153.

1976d “Pour célébrer V:P. Bol.” Lectures Africaines 3 (2): 17-28.

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1976e “Syncrétisme religieux.” Groupe de recherche sur les syncrétismes religieux 1: 1-2.

1975a “Interdisciplinarité.” Les Cahiers du Cride, Kisangani, Congo, 1975.

1975b “L’Odeur du père.” Revue Zaïroise de Psychologie et de Pédagogie 4 (1): 135-149.

1975c “Rapport général de la Table Ronde des centres de linguistique d’Afrique francophone.” Groupe de recherche sur les africanismes 1: 10-13.

1975d “Société, Enseignement et Créativité.” Créativité et Université: Special Issue, La Revue de l'AUPELF 13 (2): 29-35.

1975e “Témoignage.” Revue des Ecrivains Catholiques (Publication Périodique de l’Association des Ecrivains Catholiques de France), (December): 8-10.

1974a “Et Dieu, que devient-il?” Cahiers des Religions Africaines 8 (15): 135- 41.

1974b “La Sorcellerie comme langage et comme théorie.” (Sorcery in Language and in Theory). Cahiers des Religions Africaines 8 (16): 165-279.

1974c “Les intellectuels Zaïrois.” Zaïre-Afrique II: 451-63.

1973a “Héritage occidental et critique des evidences.” Zaïre-Afrique 72: 89-99.

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