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About Mahmood Mamdani. Mahmood Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda. A political scientist and anthropologist, he is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His previous books include Citizen and Subject and When Victims… More about Mahmood Mamdani
Aug 21, 2021 · For Mahmood Mamdani, the renowned Ugandan scholar, this is an intra-European narrative that underestimates, if not outright ignores, the colonial roots of the modern state apparatus. After all, the Peace of Westphalia settled intra-European conflicts in a way that facilitated the colonial expansion of European powers abroad.
Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton University Press. 1996. In his book, Mamdani explores the effect of colonialism in contemporary Africa as a legacy that continues to be at the centre of post-colonial Africa.
Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference.A ...
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native” and “settler” tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the ...
Jan 22, 2024 · Mahmood Mamdani’s latest work, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, delves into the intricate genealogy of political modernity, scrutinising the entwined narratives of nation-states and colonial states. The Uganda-born author, a distinguished professor at Columbia University, contends that the foundations of the modern state were laid in 1492 when the Castilian monarchy pursued a homogeneous national homeland by ejecting and converting those ...
In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects.
