Africa Beyond Inventions

Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• I. Overture.- 1. Resurrecting Mudimbe — Zubairu Wai.- Ii. Discourse Of Otherness- 2. Mudimbe’s Homo Absconditus: Towards A Resurrection Of The Human— Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.- 3. Aesthetic Theologies Of Resemblance, The Production Of Colonial Difference, And Possibilities Of Ethical Translation— Zahir Kolia.- 4. Notions Of Africanity—Sanya Osha.- Iii. Reading The Postcolonial.- 5. Refusing To Vanish: Despair, Contingency, And The African Political—Alírio Karina.- 6. Decolonizing Knowledge In Africa: Mudimbe’s Philosophical Deconstruction Of The Postcolonial Event—Gervais Désiré Yamb- 7. Recreating Knowledge About Africa In The Shadow Of The Colonial Library—Sally Matthews.- 8. The Danse Of Plato And Mudimbe, Or The Relationship Between Plato’s Epistemology And Mudimbe’s Phenomenology—Donatien M. Cicura.- Iv. Sites Of Inscriptions.- 9. The Elusive Mudimbe: A Feminist Journey Through His Novels—Getrude Mianda.- 10. Religion And Theology As Cultural And Political Performance—KaserekaKavwaherehi.- 11. Securitisation And The ‘Weak States’ Concept: A Mudimbean Analysis—Tinashe Jakwa.- V. Finale- 12. Afterword: Letter To V.Y. Mudimbe, On The Euromorphic Practice Of Critique —Zubairu Wai.