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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
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