The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious...

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolo...

In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and ...

Eighteen of Africa's most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, ...

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Despite its crucial role in the Ugandan economy, labour power has rarely been studied by social s...

In trying to fathom the present crisis in the DRC, Mamdani's study concentrates on the Great Lake...

The Claude Aké lecture delivered by Mahmood Mamdani offers an African perspective on 9 11, arguin...

Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere Universi...

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks ...

An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide'When we captured Kigali, ...

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'A compelling historical reconstruction.... [A]n analysis distinguished by its utter respect for ...

Examining how the conflict has drawn in national, regional, and global forces, this book deconstr...

In his introduction to this new edition of From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain...