Valentine Yifet Modambi, 83, dies. An African researcher stabbed in the West

Mr. Modambi was not apologized. “To the question” What is Africa? “Or” How do African Cultures Determine? “This is the level in which I put my project.”

Valentin Yves Modambi was born on December 8, 1941, in Likasi, in Katanga Province, while the Belgian Congo was to Gustav Chiluella, a civilian employee, and Victorine Nagola. At an early age, he said in 1991, “began” living with the Bindikin monks as a vitality “in Kakanda, in the Congo before independence. He had” no contact with the outside world, even with my family, and he had no holidays. “

He remembers that when he was 17 or 18 years old, he decided to become a monk, this time between the white “white fathers” of Gihindamuyaga, in Rwanda. But in his early twenties, “indeed Frankovon”, he abandoned religious life and entered the University of Lovanium in Kinshasa, and graduated in 1966 with a testimony in romantic linguistics. In 1970 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy and literature from the University of Louvan Catholic, in Belgium. Then he returned to the Congo to teach.

In the seventies of the last century, Mr. Mudimbe, among other writings, published three novels, all of which were translated into English: “Entre Les Eaux” (1973), published in the English language as “Between Water”; “Le Bel Immonde” (“Before the Birth of the Moon”, 1976); And “L’ACart” (“The Rift”, 1979). The main characters in these novels “find it impossible to link themselves with anything solid,” Researcher Nadia Yala Kisukidi Stuck In Le Monde.

At the end of the seventies of the last century, when the show came from Mr. Mobutu to be “responsible, I think, ideology and things like this,” as Mr. Modambi said to Callao, he reflected that “I did not think about myself and I am still not thinking about myself as a politician.” After establishing himself in the United States, his focus turned into articles and philosophy; Among the other books, “L’Udeur du Père” books (1982), “Parables and Fables” (1991) and “Tales of Faith” (1997).