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| On African Fault Lines |
V-Y Mudimbe’s On African Fault Lines was
launched by the Department of Political and International Studies’ Thinking
Africa project on Tuesday evening.
Described by Lewis Gordon as the African
continent’s greatest thinker, Mudimbe, is this collection of meditations is
concerned with three thematics: Africa’s place within today’s
intellectual, economic and cultural configurations; the main axes that
structure disciplinary practices concerned with African difference and
the possibility of understanding being-in-the-world with reference
to alienation, creativity and friendship.
There can be no doubt that On African Fault Lines is a
brilliant and intensely thought assemblage of writings Intellectual good faith
is the hallmark and true achievement of Valentin Mudimbe’s oeuvre, and it is
spectacularly on display here. His good faith approach draws ‘Africa’ into the
wide orbit of his thought as much as he draws his sources into ‘Africa’. The
signal accomplishment of this book is that it teaches us how to learn.
A limited number of copies the book are available
at the discounted price of
R350 (regular price R450) from Mrs Bryone Peters
whose office is downstairs
in the Politics building.
