Articles by Mahmood Mamdani

Democratic Struggles Mahmood Mamdani A curious feature of current African politics is the prescription of solutions drawn from a context other than the one that gave rise to its problems. Whereas the source of demands is the existing African context, the framework for solutions is generally a received theory of democracy which has little to do with contemporary realities in Africa.

and Struggle for Democracy in Africa Mahmood Mamdani Thandika Mkandawire Wamba-dia-Wamba The current 'crisis in Africa1 demands that attention be directed to the subjective factor in African development. For whatever the roots of that crisis, its solution can only be the result of initiative by organised social forces inside Africa. So far the focus of inquiry had largely been one-sided

Mahmood Mamdani This paper seeks to contribute to the development of a scientific explanation of the rising rates of natural increase in population in most backward capitalist countries and thereby to deepen the critique of neo-Malthusianism and attempt a redefinition of what has been called the 'population problem' The author analyses the reproductive behaviour of two social groups that form the bulk of the population in the Indian social formation : the working peasantry and the unemployed. He tries to delineate those historically created social relations that explain the reproductive behaviour of these groups.