Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 24 No. 72 Citizen and Subject (Mamdani)

Abstract of Review

Title:	Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996) by Mahmood Mamdani
Reviewer:	Adam Leach
Location:	Vol.24 No.72 (June 1997), pp295-297

Citizen and Subject offers a detailed and complex examination of the nature of fragmentation within contemporary African political structures. As the product of ten years' research it is a lengthy, intricate and careful analysis of two important political experiences in Africa. Uganda and South Africa both show how power, resistance and the scope for change have been conditioned by the colonial legacy. Mamdani argues convincingly for the need to understand African political experience in its own terms.

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