TY - BOOK AU - Mamdani,Mahmood TI - Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism T2 - Princeton studies in culture/power/history SN - 0691180423 AV - DT31.5 .M35 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - New Jersey PB - Princeton University press KW - Colonies KW - Africa KW - Administration KW - Despotism KW - Democracy KW - Apartheid KW - Indigenous peoples KW - fast KW - Colonial influence KW - Politics and government KW - 89.91 imperialism KW - gtt KW - nbc N1 - 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 ER -