Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Obywatel i poddany: współczesna Afryka i dziedzictwo późnego kolonializmu)

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Mahmood Mamdani’s “Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism” was published by Princeton University Press in 1996 and received the Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association. Comparing South Africa with Uganda and drawing on material from across the continent, it argues that colonial rule after the late nineteenth century governed Africans through indirect rule: chiefs appointed or recognised by the colonial state exercised fused executive, legislative and judicial powers under a “customary” law the state had codified, while civil law and rights were reserved for the colonisers and an urban minority. Mamdani calls this arrangement a bifurcated state and a decentralised despotism, and reads apartheid as its most developed form rather than as an exception. He then examines how rural revolts and urban movements tried to overcome the division, and why independence left it largely in place. The book became a standard work on the African state.

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