Citizen and Subject : Contemporary Africa and The Legacy of Late Colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 1996.

xxiv, 356 pages : Tables ; 24 cm.

First published by Princeton University Press in 1996.

New paperback edition, with a new preface by the author, 2018.

This book has been composed in Galliard.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

The Structure of Power -- The Anatomy of Resistance.

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.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])