Violence in/and the Great Lakes: The Thought of V.Y. Mudimbe and
Beyond is, in the best sense of the term, a homage to Valentin
Mudimbe. This collection of essays honours the intellectual legacy
of Mudimbe, for decades now one of Africa and the diaspora's most
significant minds, by taking up the challenges - ethical,
political, philosophical, literary, sociological, anthropological,
psychological - his work poses. This book gathers a group of US-
and Africa-based scholars, many of whom are long-time Mudimbe
collaborators and colleagues, who use the questions posed, the
critiques and insights offered and the paradigms constructed by
Mudimbe's oeuvre to understand the implication - and, in some
instances, the application - of Mudimbe's work in our moment. In
this way, the project is true to Mudimbe's deepest commitment
because the collection, for all the range of its contributions, for
all the variegated and often dissonant - yet resonant - ways in
which the authors take up Mudimbe's thinking, never strays too far
from the historic question of violence and the effects of that
violence in the Great Lakes region of Africa; and, indeed, of
violence in Africa itself. This is, in every important way, the
founding inquiry of Mudimbe's work, and it is sustained in this
collection; and, as importantly, it is given new life, new
philosophical shape, new political impetus, because it is a
question that continues to haunt Mudimbe's writing and, of course,
the continent itself. In so honouring Mudimbe, this book is
grounded in a key contribution by Mudimbe himself. Mudimbe is thus,
as has long been his wont, reflecting upon his work in the company
of those scholars whose work he has influenced and whom, it is
clear, have been important interlocutors for Mudimbe. Contributors:
Justin K. Bisanswa, Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Grant Farred, Olga
Hel-Bongo, Kasereka Kavwahirehi, Laura Kerr, V-Y Mudimbe, Leonhard
Praeg and Zubairu Wai.
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