Citizen and Subject Contemporary Africa and The Legacy of Late Colonialism / [electronic resource] :
Mahmood Mamdani.
- Princeton, New Jersey ; Princeton University Press, 1996.
- xxiv, 356 p. : Tables ; 24 cm.
- Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History. .
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
First published by Princeton University Press in 1996. New paperback edition, with a new preface by the author, 2018. This book has been composed in Galliard. Printed on acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
The Structure of Power -- The Anatomy of Resistance. Introduction: Thinking through Africa's Impasse -- Decentralized Despotism -- Indirect Rule: The Politics of Decentralized Despotism -- Customary Law: The Theory of Decentralized Despotism -- The Native Authority and the Free Peasantry -- The Other Face of Tribalism: Peasant Movements in Equatorial Africa -- The Rural in the Urban: Migrant Workers in South Africa -- Conclusion: Linking the Urban and the Rural.