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Mahmood Mamdani[a] FBA (born 23 April 1946) is a Ugandan[1][2] academic, author, and political commentator. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science and African studies at Columbia University.[3] He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda.[4][5]
He was previously the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, from 2010 until 2022.[6][7] Mamdani specialises in the study of African and international politics, colonialism and post‐colonialism, and the politics of knowledge production.
Early life and education
Mamdani was born on 23 April 1946 in Bombay, India, the year before the end of British colonial rule.[8][9] He was raised in Kampala, Uganda, as part of the Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa. His parents, Gujarati Muslims, were born in the British territory of Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania), and moved to Bombay while his father attended college there.[10][11] The family returned to Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika when Mamdani was two, and moved to Uganda when he was five or six years old.[10] He is an Indian-Ugandan.[12]
At the time, Uganda was racially segregated, including where people lived, the schools, the mosques, and children's play areas. For his primary school education, he first attended a madrasa, and then the Government Indian Primary School.[10] He grew up speaking Gujarati, Urdu, and Swahili, and started studying English in sixth grade.[10] After junior secondary school, he attended Old Kampala Senior Secondary School, where he was secretary of the Do-it-Yourself Physics club.[13]
Mamdani was one of 23 Ugandan students in the 1963 group of the Kennedy Airlift, a US-funded scholarship program that brought hundreds of East Africans to universities in the United States and Canada between 1959 and 1963.[14][15]Mamdani began studying at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1967.
Shachtman, Tom (2009). Airlift to America.How Barack Obama Sr, John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours. St. Martins Press.[page needed]