The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (African Systems of Thought)
The Invention of Africa, joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits Award, has assumed a place as one of the important books of African studies.  JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY Mudimbe's historical anthropology...achieves the  decolonisation  of academic knowledge of Africa ... This highly sophisticated and provocative study should command the attention of every scholar. - Bogumil Jewsiewicki ... an impressive demonstration of erudition with a balanced, frequently very perceptive, perspective on how intellectual constructs on Africa have developed and operate. - William Freund in JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.