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Title: Citizen and Subject by Mahmood Mamdani ISBN: 0-691-02793-5 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Comment: Mamdani succeeds in breaking the colonial political system into pieces drawing the distinction between urban direct rule which spoke the language of civil society and civil rights, and rural indirect rule, which spoke of community and culture and describes them as different faces of the bifurcated colonial state. This bifurcated system dissipated with Independence revealing the need of a new agenda for the newly created state. The first duty of the state was to bring together the different stratums in the society for the reconstruction of a both ethnical and political identity. Democracy was the prescribed solution to react against apartheid and a tribalized native society. Mamdani's claims that whereas democratization brought winds that will remove erstwhile privileges inherited from a colonial, white dominated central power; it failed to conquer the system that kept the peasants under the hold of a tribal authorit
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Title: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani ISBN: 0691102805 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani ISBN: 0375422854 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by J.-A. Mbembe, J. A. Mbembe, Achille Mbembe ISBN: 0520204352 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity by Timothy Mitchell ISBN: 0520232623 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey Herbst ISBN: 0691010285 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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