Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity

Define and Rule
Define and Rule

An examination of political identities in post-colonial Africa.

Submitted by red jack on December 29, 2016

Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference.

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