The Idea of Africa: African Systems of Thought by V.Y. Mudimbe (English) Paperba

By V.Y. Mudimbe. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "ideaof Africa was constructed by the Western world. 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.".