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

Mamdani, Mahmood

Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism/ Mahmood Mamdani - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. - xxiv, 353 p. ; 24 cm. - (Princeton studies in culture/power/history) .

Introduction : thinking through Africa's impasse --
Decentralized despotism --
Indirect rule : the politics of decentralized despotism --
Customary law : the theory of decentralized despotism --
The native authority and the free peasantry --
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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Apartheid
Colonies--Administration
Democracy
Colonial influence
Politics and government

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