What to Read After Citizen and Subject
Readers who loved Citizen and Subject by Mahmood Mamdani keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Citizen and Subject is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Citizen and Subject
A dying colonialism
Abyssinian Chronicles
Facing Mount Kenya
The invention of Africa
Hopes and impediments
Eqbal Ahmad, confronting empire
Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom)
The Education of a British-Protected Child
Thomas Sankara parle, La révolution au Burkina Faso 1983-1987
Encountering development
Weapons of the Weak
Postcolonialism
The autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah.
Imperial reckoning
The Black man's burden
Another day in paradise
Anti-politics machine
The Africans
Impossible Cure
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Africa's world war
Decolonising the Mind
History of Africa
Eurocentrism