Idea of Africa

<p>. . . this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies. --International Journal of African Historical Studies<br /><br />To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains with much learned commentary what you are seeing. --American Anthropologist<br /><br />Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced. --Ivan Karp<br /><br />A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the idea of Africa was constructed by the Western world.</p>