15/08/2022
SCENT OF THE FATHER BY
Y. MUDIMBE
HUGE NEWS
Congratulations to
His work is on the book cover of:
SCENT OF THE FATHER BY Y. MUDIMBE
Valentin Y. Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation.
Valentin Y. Mudimbe is Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Literature, Emeritus, at Duke University.
The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential post-colonial thinkers of our time.
In The Scent of the Father, Mudimbe set himself the task of shedding light on the complex links that bind Africa to the West and determine the exercise of thought and knowledge practices, particularly in relation to the social sciences.
This seminal work by a leading African thinker will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the legacies of colonialism and the debates on decolonization and decoloniality in the social sciences and humanities.
The book is now available for pre-order from Amazon.co.uk.
The work is published by Polity Books in the UK. This first edition will be out November 24.
Alexandre Kyungu, a Congolese based artist we represent, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Art in Kinshasa, he has done the following residencies:
Pro Helvetia in Switzerland
Bag Factory in South Africa
Art Omi in New York
Ateleir Mondial in Switzerland
Wiels in Belgium
