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Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani, with a new preface by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in culture/power/historyPublication details: New Jersey: Princeton University press, 2018.Edition: New paperback editionDescription: xxiv, 353 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691180423
  • 9780691180427
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DT31.5 .M35 2018
Contents:
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.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-337) and index.

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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