$6.62
Details
A Macat Analysis of Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
Author: Meike de Goede
Series: Macat Library
Narrator: Macat.com
Unabridged: 1 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 07/15/2016
Genre: History - Africa
Synopsis
In Citizen and Subject, Ugandan academic and author Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant views about the crisis of postcolonial Africa. Many studies emphasize that the problems the continent faces are home grown—the consequence of poor government, widespread corruption, and other local factors. Citizen and Subject challenged these ideas. It argues that the current crisis has come about because of the institutional legacy of colonialism. According to Mamdani, reforms after independence have deracialized, but not democratized, the African state. They have not abolished the two-pronged structure of the colonial era, characterized by different systems of administration—one traditional and rural, the other urban and modern. Instead, they have simply reproduced them, tainting these institutions with the colonial legacy and making them unfit for purpose. Winner of the prestigious African Studies Association Herskovits Prize for the best book published on Africa, Citizen and Subject has also been voted one of the twentieth century’s 100 greatest books about Africa.
by Charles River Editors
The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto v...
Published: 01/06/2020
by Charles River Editors
“The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce. They overtly compared their way of life t...
Published: 03/28/2019
by Charles River Editors
The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto v...
Published: 02/09/2020
by Charles River Editors
“The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce. They overtly compared their way of life ...
Published: 03/20/2019
by Charles River Editors
The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it, going back centuries. In fact, the European history of ...
Published: 03/30/2019
by Arthur Talmage Abernethy
“The most the startling book of the year...its research is unanswerable.” -Literary DigestAbernethy’s 1910 book “The Jew a Negro” has been analyzed by numerous modern authors studying race relations in earlier times in ...
Published: 10/23/2019
by Charles River Editors
The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. When they began to arr...
Published: 03/10/2020
by Charles River Editors
By the dawn of the 17th century, Portuguese influence in Africa fell into decline, and the occasions of European contact with Ethiopia became very few and far between. It would be another three centuries before another European would venture into th...
Published: 03/10/2020
by Anthony Holmes
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Learn about the Egyptian gods, mummification and how the Egyptians built the only wonder of the ancient world still standing – the Pyramids of Giza. Exploring the historic rise of Egyptian...
Published: 01/03/2013