Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism by Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner, Nicholas B. Dirks, Mahmood Mamdani

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

Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner, Nicholas B. Dirks, Mahmood Mamdani

368 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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