Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism /
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| Language: | English |
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Wits University Press ,
1996
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| Series: | Makerere Institute of Social Research |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: thinking through Africa's impasse -- The structure of power. Decentralized despotism ; Indirect rule: the politics of decentralized despotism ; Customary law: the theory of decentralized despotism ; The native authority and the free peasantry -- 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.