BookThe Idea of AfricaV. Y. Mudimbe1994The Idea of AfricaV. Y. Mudimbe1994-01-01bookIndiana University Press eBooks244 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.African history and culture studiesAfrican cultural and philosophical studiesCultural Studies and ColonialismAbstractHow the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 244 citations exist upstream.Cited by2016Toward a Postcolonial Comparative and International Education2014Where in the world does neoliberalism come from?2016Masculinities in global perspective: hegemony, contestation, and changing structures of power2016Digitisation, digital interaction and social media: embedded barriers to democratic heritage2014The sociology of gender in Southern perspective2013The Entrapment of Africa within the Global Colonial Matrices of Power2018Decolonizing Sociology2014Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model