Citizen and Subject

In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood

Analizand obstacolele din calea democratizarii in Africa post-independenta, Mahmood Mamdani ofera o descriere indrazneata si perspicace a mostenirii colonialismului - o putere bifurcata care a mediat dominarea rasiala prin autoritatile locale organizate tribal, reproducand identitatea rasiala in cetateni si identitatea etnica la subiecti. Multi scriitori au inteles