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decentralized despotism: a standalone construct

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African studies

the colonial form of rule through customary chiefs who held fused administrative, judicial and executive powers over rural subjects.

In African studies, decentralized despotism refers to the colonial form of rule through customary chiefs who held fused administrative, judicial and executive powers over rural subjects. This meaning comes from Mamdani (1996) in Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism.[1]

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Mamdani, M. (1996). Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691011073

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