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  • From Citizen to Refugee
    Mahmood Mamdani
    In his introduction to this new edition of From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain, Mahmood Mamdani reminds us that long before 1972, most Ugandan ’Asians’ had already been disenfranchised by law, both Ugandan and British. Despite a global industry that insists otherwise, Uganda Asians are a poor fit as victims: there was no large-scale loss of life during the ex...
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  • When Victims Become Killers
    Mahmood Mamdani
    An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide'When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.' So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though o...
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  • Citizen and Subject
    Mahmood Mamdani
    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 'direc...
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  • Scholars in the Marketplace. The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005
    Mahmood Mamdani
    Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda’s Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and...
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    78,66 €

  • General Assembly Distinguished Lectures
    Fatou Sow / Mahmood Mamdani / Samir Amin
    The Claude Aké lecture delivered by Mahmood Mamdani offers an African perspective on 9/11, arguing that the roots of the terrorism so widely promulgated are in America (the ’democratic empire’) and the Cold War. Mamdani underlines the aspect of terrorism he terms ’culture talk’ - the language of contemporary globalisation. Samir Amin provides a critical overview and exploration...
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  • Conferences speciales de la 10e Assemblee generale du CODESRIA, Kampala, 2002
    Fatou Sow / Mahmood Mamdani / Samir Amin
    This volume brings together four lectures given by distinguished scholars at the 2002 Codesria General Assembly, all offering African perspectives on globalisation, terrorism and development. The Claude Aké lecture delivered by Mahmood Mamdani offers an African perspective on 9/11, arguing that the roots of the terrorism so widely promulgated are in America (the ’democratic emp...
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  • Understanding the Crisis in Kivu
    Mahmood Mamdani
    In trying to fathom the present crisis in the DRC, Mamdani’s study concentrates on the Great Lakes region, particularly the region of Kivu and the Kiyarwanda-speaking population. These people were historically divided into three major groups - the Banyamulenge, the Banyamasisi, and the Banyaruchuru, popularly know as Hutu and Tutsi. The author situates the crisis within the con...
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    37,32 €

  • Academic Freedom in Africa
    Mahmood Mamdani
    Eighteen of Africa’s most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, including Claude Ake, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Issa Shivji and Joseph Ki-Zerbo. As a first step towards greater consideration of the nature of the research environment in Africa and to reflect on the social and material context of research as an intellectual activity, CODESRIA co-...
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    78,11 €

  • Uganda Studies in Labour
    Mahmood Mamdani
    Despite its crucial role in the Ugandan economy, labour power has rarely been studied by social scientists. In particular, the real life experience of workers as they interact with both capital and the state has been ignored. This huge gap is redressed in this study by Ugandan authors at the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala. It provides a detailed analysis of rural Ugandan ...
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    70,19 €