Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism
by
 
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

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

Author
: 
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

ISBN
: 
9780691011073
 
9780691027937

Personal Author
: 
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

Publication Information
: 
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

Physical Description
: 
xii, 353 p. : 25 cm.

Series
: 
Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Series Title
: 
Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Contents
: 
I. Introduction: Thinking through Africa's Impasse -- Pt. I. The Structure of Power. II. Decentralized Despotism. III. Indirect Rule: The Politics of Decentralized Despotism. IV. Customary Law: The Theory of Decentralized Despotism. V. The Native Authority and the Free Peasantry -- Pt. II. The Anatomy of Resistance. VI. The Other Face of Tribalism: Peasant Movements in Equatorial Africa. VII. The Rural in the Urban: Migrant Workers in South Africa. VIII. Conclusion: Linking the Urban and the Rural.

Subject Term
: 
Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
 
Despotism -- Africa.
 
Democracy -- Africa.
 
Apartheid -- Africa.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Africa.

Geographic Term
: 
Africa -- Colonial influence.
 
Africa -- Politics and government.

Electronic Access
: 
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/95025318.html
 
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/95025318.html


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