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V.Y. Mudimbe
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (born 8 December 1941, Jadotville, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe is Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Studies and professor of comparative literature at Duke University and ''maître de conferences'' at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, ''École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' in Paris. Early life and career He was born in the Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a young man, he joined a monastery, but left in 1962 in order to study the forces that shaped African history. He studied in Leuven, Louvain (PhD, 1970), came back to Congo and flew to the United States in 1979 for political reasons. He has taught at Haverford College and Stanford University, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Program in Literature at Duke University. His work has had a major impact on many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadotville
Likasi (formerly official names: Jadotville (French language, French) and Jadotstad (Dutch language, Dutch)) is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Demographics Likasi has a population of around 635,000 (2015). During the 1990s the United Nations set up feeding centres and refugee centres in and around Likasi to assist with the refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Shaba Province, Shaba, whose arrival had increased the population of the town some 41,000. History Shinkolobwe mine, 20 km west of Likasi (then called Jadotville), was described by a 1943 Manhattan Project intelligence report as the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world. The uranium from this mine was used to build the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the State of Katanga, Katanga conflict, a company of Republic of Ireland, Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
