Citizen and Subject - Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late ColonialismPaperback
Citizen and Subject - Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late ColonialismPaperback In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold,…
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Citizen and Subject - Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late ColonialismPaperback
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. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional.
By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom.
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