Citizen and Subject : : Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism / / Mahmood Mamdani.

In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and eth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thinking through Africa's Impasse
  • The structure of power
  • Decentralized Despotism
  • Indirect Rule: the Politics of Decentralized Despotism
  • Customary law: the Theory of Decentralized Despotism
  • The Native Authority and the Free Peasantry
  • The anatomy of resistance
  • The Other Face of Tribalism: Peasant Movements in Equatorial Africa
  • The Rural in the Urban: Migrant Workers in South Africa
  • Conclusion: Linking the Urban and the Rural
  • Notes
  • Index