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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b9022759.
- catalog coverage "Africa Colonial influence.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-337) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 353 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691011079 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691027935 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Princeton studies in culture/power/history".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Colonial influence.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Africa".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "320.96/09/045 20".
- catalog subject "Apartheid Africa.".
- catalog subject "Colonies Africa Administration.".
- catalog subject "Democracy Africa.".
- catalog subject "Despotism Africa.".
- catalog subject "Indigenous peoples Africa.".
- catalog subject "JV246 .M35 1996".
- catalog subject "Political parties Africa.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani.".
- catalog type "text".