LEADER 03553cam a2200397 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20201012141856.0 008 950821s1996 nju b 001 0 eng 010 95025318 020 0691011079 (alk. paper) 020 0691027935 (pbk. : alk. paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC 043 f------ 050 00 JV246 |b.M35 1996 082 00 320.96/09/045 |220 100 1 Mamdani, Mahmood, |d1946- 245 10 Citizen and subject : |bcontemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism / |cMahmood Mamdani. 260 Princeton, N.J. : |bPrinceton University Press, |cc1996. 300 xii, 353 p. : |c25 cm. 440 0 Princeton studies in culture/power/history 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-337) and index. 505 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. 520 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 terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. 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. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa. 650 0 Colonies |zAfrica |xAdministration. 650 0 Despotism |zAfrica. 650 0 Democracy |zAfrica. 650 0 Apartheid |zAfrica. 650 0 Indigenous peoples |zAfrica. 651 0 Africa |xColonial influence. 651 0 Africa |xPolitics and government. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6320_960000000000000_09_045_MAM |70 |8GEN |9129733OSA |bOSA |d2020-10-12 |eOSA |l0 |o320.96/09/045 MAM |r2020-10-12 |w2020-10-12 |yBK |zDonation of School of Public Policy. |cOSA Repository 920 01 JXdpbVXk 992 01 320_960000000000000_09_045_MAM |bWXZ_QTZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_ZQ_ZVU_DPD 966 |cIn the Research Room