Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) - Softcover
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... This is a bold and important work, likely to be influential despite its flaws... - John Lonsdale in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY ... This is an important book, which deserves wide attention and application by anyone seeking to support sustainable changes within the context of political and institutional reform in Africa - Adam Leach in DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE ... a provocative, detailed account of the colonial and post-colonial history of the interaction between African states and societies. - Jeff Haynes in THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS ... Mahmood Mamdani's book simultaneously aims to theorize a specifically African form of state, to account for its colonial origins and post-colonial trajectories (and their contributions to Africa's crisis), and to derive from this analysis some key ideas about - and for - democratic politics in Africa today. His original argument is the most potent given the relative sterility of debate since the collapse of the post-independence project of national development. - Henry Bernstein in DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE ... This line of argument is provocative, even inspiring... - Bill Freund in THE JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
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This exploration of African politics is set in the historical context of colonialism, and includes such topics as despotism, the peasant movements, tribalism, and migrant workers in South Africa. North America: Princeton U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers
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- VerlagJames Currey
- Erscheinungsdatum1996
- ISBN 10 0852553994
- ISBN 13 9780852553992
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten352
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