La Bibliotheque Mudimbe

Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe

An annotated film screening of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s film Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe

12: 00 – 13:00 warm up with the Chimurenga Collective

13:00 – 18:00 Screening of Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe in conversation with Kalênge Yamukêna Yantûmbi, Emmanuel M. Banywesize, Jacques Mukonga and Alexis Takizala Masoso

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Les Corps glorieux des mots et des êtres In today’s session we look into the histories of words and bodies in Zaire and Congo. During Mobutu’s ‘Authenticité’, names of people, cities and landmarks were changed from the colonial to words of the local Congolese dialect, shifting the practice of vocabulary and identity. This shift was set in a terrain majorly influenced by Christianity and the monastic pedagogy complicating the forced recourse to tradition. 13:00 – 14:00 warm up with the …  ( continue reading

Pan Africanism at UNAZA, Lubumbashi Today we engage with the intellectuals of Pan Africanism at UNAZA, the National University of Zaire in the 1970’s. After the 1969 Lovanium massacre, the entire university system, in what we know now as Democratic Republic of Congo, was reformed. The three major tertiary institutions became one, UNAZA. The entire social science and arts faculties shifted to Lubumbashi, along with the philosophers, historians and theorists of the time, including V.Y Mudimbe, Cheikh Anta Diop and …  ( continue reading

Pan African Space Station at Prisme Library, Lubumbashi 21-24 October 2026  ( continue reading