# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/v-y-mudimbe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:52.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/v-y-mudimbe"
name: "V. Y. Mudimbe"
slug: "v-y-mudimbe"
description: "Valentin-Yves Mudimbe was a Congolese philosopher, academic and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe was Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Studies and professor of comparative literature at Duke University and maître de conférences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/01_V._Y._Mudimbe_2013_(profile).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-12-08"
deathDate: "2025-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.771313333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7097885/"
    handle:    "nm7097885"
sources:
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    title: "Мудимбе, Валантен-Ив"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valentin-Yves Mudimbe"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Y._Mudimbe"
    title: "V. Y. Mudimbe"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin-Yves_Mudimbe"
    title: "Valentin-Yves Mudimbe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Y._Mudimbe"
    title: "V. Y. Mudimbe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin-Yves_Mudimbe"
    title: "Valentin-Yves Mudimbe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin-Yves_Mudimbe"
    title: "Valentin-Yves Mudimbe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin-Yves_Mudimbe"
    title: "Valentin-Yves Mudimbe"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Y._Mudimbe"
    title: "V. Y. Mudimbe"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Y._Mudimbe"
    title: "V. Y. Mudimbe"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump