Mahmood Mamdani’s book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary
Africa and the Legacy of Colonialism (1995) is now viewed as one of the key
texts on citizenship, modernity and post-colonialism in Africa. Last month he
delivered the second annual Mistra lecture at the Mapungubwe Institute for
Strategic Reflection, as well as launching his new book, Define and Rule:
Native as Political Identity (Wits University Press), which was based on his
WEB du Bois lectures at Harvard.