This book explores a provocative and original thesis about African politics, with the vigour and rigour that readers of Professor Mamadani's earlier work will expect. Anyone who cares to understand the state in contemporary Africa anyone who wants to understand the current situation on the continent at all would do well to read this new book, whether you agree or d...

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 Frond reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement is the realization that, though ordered by minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was...