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Mahmood Mamdani, FBA (born 23 April 1946) is an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. [1] He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. [2]
Aug 21, 2021 · Mamdani’s latest book defends the promise of decolonization against the ongoing nationalist violence of modernity. Rafael Vizcaíno sits with the renowned Ugandan intellectual to discuss postcolonial and decolonial scholarship, the reform-revolution debate, anti-racism, and the example of South Africa. This interview opens Political Theology ...
Jan 9, 2024 · A conversation with political theorist Mahmood Mamdani on the inherent violence at the heart of a nation-building project, the war in Gaza, and the changing meaning of homeland.
Jun 15, 2021 · These are all realities in South Africa today: the book's relevance to the issues facing the society is confirmed by daily news bulletins. But while this testifies to the importance of Mamdani's book, it does not mean that its argument for why all this came to be explains reality.
Apr 22, 2023 · The change in assumptions is testament to the scale of the impact of the work of Ugandan political theorist Mahmood Mamdani, including among many who have never read anything by him. A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust.
Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University distinguished professor of government, raises fundamental existential questions as to why many postcolonial nations seek to exclude some groups within their borders from genuine membership of their communities.
May 8, 2017 · Mahmood Mamdani has been a central figure engaging in explaining the most controversial issues such as refugees, popular versus state nationalism, mass killings (Rowanda), settler versus native, colonial citizenship and its governed subject, September 11, the Dafur movement (and its self-indulgence), Imperial Human Rights, decolonizing ...
