TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mudimbe,V.Y.
TI  - The invention of Africa: gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge 
SN  - 0253331269
AV  - B5310 .M84 1988
U1  - 709.6 22
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Philosophy, African
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
N1  - Include bibliography and index
N2  - "What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V. Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge." -- Book cover
ER  -