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Citizen and Subject

Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism

Citizen and Subject( )
Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
Series title:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser.
ISBN:978-0-691-01107-3
Publication Date:Apr 1996
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $72.50
Book Description:

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, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign...
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