Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

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Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

Mahmood Mamdani ; with a new preface by the author

（Princeton studies in culture/power/history）

Princeton University Press, 2018

New paperback ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-337) and index

"First published by Princeton University Press in 1996"-- t. p. verso

Contents of Works

  • 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

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