Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

Source: New York Times | Published: April 27, 2025, 8:01 p.m.

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

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