African Book Talk Series - 'Neither Settler or Native' by Mahmood Mamdani

Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi invites you to our virtual book talk series featuring African Authors! With this series, we hope to offer a platform where African writers can engage a global audience, offering not just their work but exciting perspectives on how personal, political, and cultural experiences drive their storytelling.

For our sixth African Book Talk Series, we discuss 'Neither Settler nor Native' by Mahmood Mamdani. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe-from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan-the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority.

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