Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism by Mahmood Mamdani

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism

Mahmood Mamdani

384 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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,...

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