Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
“If you say the truth of Africa is in the eye of the beholders,” he said, “you have to ask, Why do so many beholders hold that truth?” Mr. Mudimbe…
“If you say the truth of Africa is in the eye of the beholders,” he said, “you have to ask, Why do so many beholders hold that truth?” Mr. Mudimbe…
One sector that almost all publishers in Africa say is all of a sudden rising is youngsters’s books. Lola Shoneyin, a novelist and the writer of Ouida Books in Nigeria,…
This text is a part of Overpassed, a form of obituaries about important public whose deaths, starting in 1851, went unreported in The Occasions. In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made…