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Mamdani, Mahmood was born on April 23, 1946 in Bombay. Son of Yusuf and Kulsum Alibhai.
( In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- ...)
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 colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.
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(Clean, tight book. A study of why the big birth reduction...)
Clean, tight book. A study of why the big birth reduction campaign put on by the Indian government and the Rockefeller Foundation in an Indian village in the Punjab failed so dismally. Bibliography.173pp.
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(In a gripping personal account of the Asians' last days i...)
In a gripping personal account of the Asians' last days in Uganda following their expulsion by Idi Amin in 1972, this book interweaves an examination of the country's colonial history with the subsequent evolution of postindependence politics. Expelled from Uganda and arriving in a cold and overcast London, Mahmood Mamdani shares his experiences in a camp run by the UK government's resettlement board and explores the theme of political identity-the politicization of racial identity and its reproduction after independence. A telling and gripping story that will be familiar to refugees and those seeking asylum in Britain, this vivid autobiography is as pertinent today as when it was first published in 1973.
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Mamdani, Mahmood was born on April 23, 1946 in Bombay. Son of Yusuf and Kulsum Alibhai.
Bachelor, U. Pittsburgh, 1967; Master of Arts, Tufts U., 1968; Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, Tufts U., 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1974.
With, U. Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, 1973-1979; with, Makerere U., Kampala, Uganda, 1980-1991; with, Center for Basic Research, Kampala, 1991-1996; with, U. Cape Town, South Africa, since 1996. Air Corps Jordan professor African Studies U. Cape Town.
( In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- ...)
(In a gripping personal account of the Asians' last days i...)
(Clean, tight book. A study of why the big birth reduction...)
Married Mira Nair, March 13, 1991. 1 child, Zohran.