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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani

Rejecting what the author sees as the false dichotomy of the title, this political and historical analysis traces the roots of political Islam to the Reagan years, when the US supported some insurgency movements in its proxy wars against the Soviet Union. This had the combined effect of strengthening our soon-to-be enemies, and causing greater ...

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When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism and the genocide in Rwanda

When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism and the genocide in Rwanda more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani

An African intellectual brings a great knowledge of history, politics, and geography to the issue of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Mamdani examines genocide as a category, and traces the Rwandan genocide to its sources in the colonial period and to post-colonial identity politics. He calls for reform through a politics informed by an awareness of ...

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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism more books like this

by 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 ...

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The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste and Class in an Indian Village

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by Mahmood Mamdani

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Imperialism & Fascism in Uganda more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani

An important work on the condition of, and external impact on agriculture in Africa.

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African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy

African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani (Editor)

Trade unions, burial societies, students, religious and gender movements, riots and mafias. Not to mention class. The kaleidoscope of African social movements is complex and broad. But their histories have strong common threads - the experience of past oppression and the constant struggle for an identity that will encompass survival. How have they ...

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Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture

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by Mahmood Mamdani (Editor)

These essays bring together comparative material from experiences as diverse as Tanzania, Nigerian, India, South Africa, and the US. They have the merit of illuminating vital tensions in a period of transition and contention: on the one hand, between individual freedom and culture freedom, and on the other between freedom and justice. By placing ...

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Academic Freedom in Africa

Academic Freedom in Africa more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani (Editor)

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 ...

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Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture

Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani (Editor)

These essays bring together comparative material from experiences as diverse as Tanzania, Nigerian, India, South Africa, and the US. They have the merit of illuminating vital tensions in a period of transition and contention: on the one hand, between individual freedom and culture freedom, and on the other between freedom and justice. By placing ...

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Scholars in the Marketplace. the Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005

Scholars in the Marketplace. the Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 more books like this

by 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 ...

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General Assembly Distinguished Lectures. Kampala, 2002

by Samir Amin, Mahmood Mamdani, Fatou Sow

The Claude Ak 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 ...

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Understanding the Crisis in Kivu: Report of the Codesria Mission to the Democratic Republic

Understanding the Crisis in Kivu: Report of the Codesria Mission to the Democratic Republic more books like this

by 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 ...

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Politics and Class Formation in Uganda Politics and Class Formation in Uganda more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani

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From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani

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NRA/NRM : two years in power more books like this

by Mahmood Mamdani

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Conferences Speciales de La 10e Assemblee Generale Du Codesria, Kampala, 2002

by Samir Amin, Mahmood Mamdani, Fatou Sow

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 Ak lecture delivered by Mahmood Mamdani offers an African perspective on 9/11, arguing that the roots of the terrorism so widely promulgated are ...

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Uganda: Studies in Labour more books like this

by 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 ...

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