found: His Entre les eaux, 1973:t.p. (V.Y. Mudimbe) cover p. 4 (b. 1942 in Zaïre)
found: Info. fr. B. Branson, Duke Univ., 3-8-91(call to Prof. Mudimbe, Dept. of Romance Languages, revealed that he was born in 1941)
found: V.Y. Mudimbe et la ré-invention de l'Afrique, 2006:p. 9 (Valentin-Yves Mudimbe) p. 29 (born 8 Dec. 1941)
found: Duke University, Program in Literature website, viewed Mar. 13, 2014(Valentin Y. Mudimbe; V. Y. Mudimbe; prof., literature; doctorate in philosophy, Catholic Univ. of Louvain, 1970; before coming to Duke, he taught at the Universities of Louvain, Paris-Nanterre, Zaire, Stanford, and at Haverford College; has written poetry, novels, and books in applied linguistics, philosophy, and social sciences; former gen. sec., SAPINA (Society for African Philosophy in North America))
found: Wikipedia, Mar. 13, 2014(V. Y. Mudimbe; Valentin-Yves Mudimbe; b. Jadotville [now Likasi], Belgian Congo; philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, books and articles about African culture; focuses on phenomenology, structuralism, mythical narratives, and the practice and use of languages; titles in French and English)
found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 8, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database(Mudimbe, V. Y.; Valentin-Yves Mudimbe; literary scholar, anthropologist, philosopher and writer; born 8 December 1941 in Congo; studied at the University of Lovanium in Kinshasa, then Léopoldville (1962); studied at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium (1970); was lecturer in the Department of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre; completed PhD and returned to Congo; organized the Congress of African Studies in Kinshasa (1978); went into exile to the United States (1980); worked at Haverford College (1981-1985); worked at Stanford University and Duke University; secretary-general of the Society of African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA); became chairman of the board of the International African Institute at the University of London; Doctor Honoris causa at Université de Paris VII-Diderot (1997); Doctor Honoris Causa at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2006); The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1988) earned him the Herskovits Award (1989))
found: Scholars@Duke website, August 30, 2023(Valentin Mudimbe; Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature; V.Y. Mudimbe received his Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1970. In 1997, he became Doctor Honoris Causa at Universiť Paris VII Diderot, and in 2006, became Doctor Honoris Causa at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Before coming to Duke, he taught at the Universities of Louvain, Paris-Nanterre, Zaire, Stanford, and at Haverford College)
