Citizen and Subject Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism

Name: Citizen and Subject Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
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ISBN: 9780691027937

ISBN-10: 0691027935

ISBN-13: 9780691027937

Edition: 1996

Authors: Mahmood Mamdani

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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 ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule,…

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List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.37" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Mahmood Mamdani is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University and Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University



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