Part One The structure of power: decentralized despotism; indirect rule - the politics of decentralized despotism; customary la - the theory of decentralized despotism; the native authority and the free peasantry. Part Two The anatomy of resistance: 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.
... This is a bold and important work, likely to be influential
despite its flaws...
*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.
*DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE*
... a provocative, detailed account of the colonial and
post-colonial history of the interaction between African states and
societies.
*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.
*DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE*
... This line of argument is provocative, even inspiring...
*THE JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES*
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