Mahmood Mamdani

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Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan-born scholar and public intellectual known for his influential work on colonialism, political violence, and African history and politics.

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political scientist
public intellectual
scholar
almaMater University of Pittsburgh NERFINISHED
awardReceived Herskovits Award NERFINISHED
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Ideas Improving World Order NERFINISHED
birthCountry India NERFINISHED
birthDate 1946-04-23
birthPlace Mumbai NERFINISHED
citizenship Uganda NERFINISHED
United States of America
degree PhD in government
employer CODESRIA NERFINISHED
Columbia University
Makerere University NERFINISHED
University of Dar es Salaam NERFINISHED
ethnicOrigin Indian
fieldOfWork African history
African politics
colonialism
comparative politics
critical theory
political violence
hasTaughtAt Columbia University NERFINISHED
Makerere University NERFINISHED
University of Cape Town NERFINISHED
University of Dar es Salaam NERFINISHED
influencedBy Amílcar Cabral NERFINISHED
Antonio Gramsci NERFINISHED
Frantz Fanon NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
knownFor analysis of colonialism and the postcolonial state in Africa
critiques of liberal interventionism
work on political violence and genocide
name Mahmood Mamdani NERFINISHED
notableWork Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism NERFINISHED
Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity NERFINISHED
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror NERFINISHED
Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities NERFINISHED
Politics and Class Formation in Uganda NERFINISHED
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda NERFINISHED
researchInterest citizenship and subjecthood
genocide studies
political Islam
state formation in Africa
workPosition Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government
Professor of Anthropology

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