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Idi Amin Reconsidered

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Magzter Inc.
Try GOLD - Free The Wall Street Journal | October 16, 2025 Slow Poison Mahmood Mamdani has written a startling book. Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodth This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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Slow Poison — Harvard University Press

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By Mahmood Mamdani, Robert Harris, Kathleen Parthé, Alexander Herzen
| Harvard University
Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State Mahmood Mamdani Hardcover eBook Harvard University Press books are not shipped directly to India due to regional distribution arrangements. Buy from your local bookstore, Amazon.co.in, or Flipkart.com. This book is not shipped directly to country due to regional distribution arrangements. Pre-order for this book isn't available yet on our website. This book is currently out of stock.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin

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By Mahmood Mamdani, Faisal Ali
| Geeska-چيسكا
In June 2010, Mahmood Mamdani was appointed Director of the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, which he since developed into what is arguably the premier center for graduate education in the social sciences and the humanities on the continent. On December 1, 2018, at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, Mamdani delivered the Hormood Lecture.
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Akuol de Mabior: “everybody has to figure out where their home is”

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By Jaume Portell Caño, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohamed Gabobe, Faisal Ali
| shorturl.at
In one of the final scenes of the film No Simple Way Home, Akuol de Mabior sits inside a vehicle, describing the people along the roadside as the car drives by. There, individuals selling tea strive to make a living. These are the ones who, as she puts it, hold everything together and prevent it all from collapsing.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin

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By Mahmood Mamdani, Faisal Ali, Chinua Achebe
| rb.gy
In June 2010, Mahmood Mamdani was appointed Director of the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, which he since developed into what is arguably the premier center for graduate education in the social sciences and the humanities on the continent. On December 1, 2018, at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, Mamdani delivered the Hormood Lecture.
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Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

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By Election Year--All Senators, Mahmood Mamdani, Belknap Press, Walter L. Hixson
| Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
All books featured in this new section are available from Middle East Books and More, the nation’s preeminent bookstore on the ­Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. www.MiddleEastBooks.com • (202) 939-6050 ext. 1 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2023, pp. 68-69 Middle East Books Review By Mahmood Mamdani, Belknap Press, 2020, paperback, 416 pp. MEB $19.95 Reviewed by Walter L.
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The Asian Question

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
Iwas​ in my mid-twenties in November 1972 when I left Uganda on the orders of Idi Amin, who had seized the presidency in a coup the previous year. The expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, estimated at seventy thousand, was announced in August; we were given three months to leave. Around twenty thousand had Ugandan citizenship. Roughly the same number had applied for citizenship, but their applications remained unprocessed – a sign of how politically explosive citizenship had become.
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The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021

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By Cal Flyn, Eddie S. Glaude, Mahmood Mamdani, Sujit Sivasundaram
| londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding celebrates the best works of non-fiction that have contributed to public understanding of world cultures.
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The 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

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By Cal Flyn, Mahmood Mamdani, Sujit Sivasundaram, Sophie Roell
| Five Books
When you’re choosing books for this prize, you’re presumably looking for nonfiction books that are global in scope. Could you tell me a bit more, particularly about the cultural understanding element? We’re looking for books that help us understand where we are now, that help readers grasp what is going on in the world and how people, whatever their lineage and situation, are facing contemporary reality.
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The world can learn from South Africa’s ideal of nonracial democracy

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Aeon
In the course of the struggle against apartheid, South Africans did something remarkable: they tried, with incomplete success, to destroy the settler and the native by reconfiguring both as survivors. They did so by adopting a response to extreme violence that defied the logic of Nuremberg – the logic of separating perpetrators from victims, punishing the perpetrators, and creating separate spheres in which the two could live without harming each other in an ongoing cycle of violence.
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Debate | Natives and Forced Immigrants: Is There a Difference?

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| The Wire (India)
I seek to address here a set of questions raised by Professor Nandita Sharma in her recent recent review of my book (Neither Settler Nor Native) in The Wire. What is the difference, historically and politically, between natives and immigrants, particularly forced immigrants (slaves, indentured servants)? Why draw a distinction between two oppressed groups? Professor Sharma begins by questioning the validity of two distinctions, land and labour, and colonialism and racism.
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South Africa: Neither Settler Nor Native

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| AllAfrica
Mahmood Mamdani argues that colonialism created the nation-state by defining categories of people, including the so-called 'native' and the settler in South Africa and America. This is a lightly edited excerpt from Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Wits Press, 2020) by Mahmood Mamdani. Settlers and natives in apartheid South AfricaIn a 1998 lecture in South Africa, I asked the following question: When does a settler become a native?
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The making and unmaking of permanent minorities

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By Jacques Depelchin, Christopher J. Lee , Abdul Adan, Mahmood Mamdani
| Africa Is a Country
There is no doubt that Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani’s new book, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Harvard University Press, 2020), is a major effort towards an understanding of the untold and distorted history of the United States, and the consequences this mythologized history has had on other parts of the world, especially Sudan, Israel, and South Africa. For this reviewer, however, the effort could have gone much further.
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New Books | Neither Settler Nor Native

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| New Frame
This is a lightly edited excerpt from Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Wits University Press, 2020) by Mahmood Mamdani. Settlers and natives in apartheid South AfricaIn a 1998 lecture in South Africa, I asked the following question: When does a settler become a native? The answer, I believed then and believe now, is never. The native, I argued, is a creation of the settler state.
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South Africa’s Left needs a new party

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By Bruce Baigrie, Benjamin Fogel, Sean Jacobs, Mahmood Mamdani
| Africa Is a Country
This is the inaugural post in a series of republications, as part of our partnership with the South African Left publication, Amandla. Over the last decade, the Left in a number of Western countries has undergone a historic transition from “protest to politics,” to borrow the words of the late Canadian Marxist Leo Panitch and his frequent co-author Sam Gindin.
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Decolonizing Politics

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Boston Review
Part of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, the Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO) protest against Edward Kennedy’s visit. (Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images) In his latest book, famed African political philosopher Mahmood Mamdani considers how to restore the full benefits of citizenship to permanent minorities in post-colonial societies.
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Gramsci in the postcolony

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By Sara Salem, Mahmood Mamdani, Carlos Fernandes, Tom Devriendt
| Africa Is a Country
It was while working on a project that traced the rise and fall of Nasserism in Egypt—a political project that emerged during Egypt’s anticolonial moment and that was led by one of the major figures of global anticolonialism, Gamal Abdel Nasser—that I began thinking about traveling theory. I was reflecting on Nasser’s powerful presence, both in Egypt and across Africa, Asia, and the rest of the postcolonial world.
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Eager to Appropriate | Mahmood Mamdani

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Lapham's Quarterly
In the early period of American colonization, there was no reference to a place called Indian country. That is because every place was Indian country. Settlers in Maine rented land from Indians. In the Dutch and English colonies, settlers purchased land from Indians, either wholesale or piecemeal. The term Indian country was first used in King George III’s Royal Proclamation of 1763.
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5. The Israel / Palestine Question

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| degruyter.com
Mamdani, Mahmood. "5. The Israel / Palestine Question". Neither Settler nor Native, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2020, pp. 250-326. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674249998-006Mamdani, M. (2020). 5. The Israel / Palestine Question. In Neither Settler nor Native (pp. 250-326). Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674249998-006Mamdani, M. 2020. 5. The Israel / Palestine Question. Neither Settler nor Native.
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Thinking About Genocide

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By Mahmood Mamdani, Susan Thomson, Dan Magaziner
| Africa Is a Country
This excerpt from the “Introduction” of Mahmood Mamdani’s When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (first published in 2002) is kindly reproduced here with the permission of Princeton University Press. We do not hold the copyright in this case. I visited Rwanda roughly a year after the genocide. On July 22, 1995, I went to Ntarama, about an hour and a half by car from Kigali, on a dirt road going south toward the Burundi border.
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The cover up

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By John Allan Namu, Sam Broadway, René Lemarchand, Mahmood Mamdani
| Africa Is a Country
May 16th 2020 1:43 pm. News of the arrest in Paris, France of Felicien Kabuga, the man long accused of funding the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 26 years ago, has now reached a one-bedroom house in Pangani estate, Nakuru, Kenya. Josephat Gichuki, the tenant in this threadbare home, calls me to ask if I have heard the news. We talk now and again, our conversations mostly prompted by the slightest of wisps of news about Rwanda’s octogenarian outlaw. Today I can hear excitement in his voice.
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What is a tribe?

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
A new form of colonialism was born in the second half of the 19th century, largely in response to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Of its many theorists by far the most influential was Henry Maine, a brilliant historian of jurisprudence, barrister, journalist, colonial civil servant and eventually master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Maine made an eloquent case for the historicity and agency of the colonised, as part of an attempt to reconstitute the colonial project on a more durable basis.
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The world has lost a giant of development economics

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By Isabel Ortiz, Noah Tsika, Mahmood Mamdani, Alex Lichtenstein
| Africa Is a Country
With the passing of Thandika Mkandawire on March 27, 2020 the world has lost a giant of development, a towering economist, a brilliant thinker, and a committed fighter for social justice. Born in 1940, Thandika first experienced the slap of injustice in early childhood. One night, trucks came with soldiers and removed Thandika’s family from their farm in Malawi. They resettled in a town in the Copperbelt of Zambia.
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Roti and roses

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By William Shoki, Benjamin Fogel, Sean Jacobs, Mahmood Mamdani
| Africa Is a Country
WS How long have you been in New York City? ZM We moved to New York City when I was seven, so it’s coming to twenty-one years now. We actually moved from Cape Town. I was born and raised in Kampala, and we moved to Cape Town when I was about five and lived there for two years. Between birth and getting to five, there were a few months where my dad worked in Durban so we lived there for a little bit. In 1999 we moved to New York, and I’ve been there since. So, this is definitely home for me.
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Uncovering the CAA’s larger stratagem

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| The Hindu
Student protesters have exacted their first concession from the powers that be. The Prime Minister has denied any official intent to compile a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC), nor to build detention centres to contain those classified as non-citizens. The implication is to delink any connection between the NRC and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019. This signals an official intent to shift the focus of public attention from the NRC to the CAA.
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Our universities need relevance and excellence

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Mail & Guardian
(John McCann/M&G)COMMENTThe institutional form of the modern African university did not derive from precolonial institutions; the inspiration was the colonial modern. The model was a discipline-based, gated community with a distinction between clearly defined groups (administrators, academics and degree-seeking students). The model traces its origin to the Humboldt University in Berlin, a new type of university designed in the aftermath of Germany’s defeat by France in 1810.
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Without land reform, SA will fail to lift majority of black

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Daily Monitor
In SummaryNeed for land reform. Without land reform, ANC and Ramaphosa will fail to lift the majority of the black people from abysmal poverty and will fail in ending social apartheid. AdvertisementBy Mahmood MamdaniIn 1996, while I was a teaching at the University of Cape Town, I was invited by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be an in-house critic at a town hall they had organised. A member of the largely black African audience told this story: “Tom and John were neighbours.
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Opinion | Why South Africa Can’t Avoid Land Reforms

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| The New York Times
In 1996, while I was teaching at the University of Cape Town, I was invited by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be an in-house critic at a town hall it had organized. A member of the largely black African audience told this story:“Tom and John were neighbors. One day Tom stole John’s bicycle. They did not speak for years until the day Tom extended his hand to John and said, ‘Let us reconcile.’“‘What about my bicycle?’ John asked. “‘Forget the bicycle,’ Tom said.
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‘Thinking About Genocide’ - An Extract from Mahmood Mamdani’s Seminal Book on Rwanda

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Africa Is a Country
I visited Rwanda roughly a year after the genocide. On July 22, 1995, I went to Ntarama, about an hour and a half by car from Kigali, on a dirt road going south toward the Burundi border. We arrived at a village church, made of brick and covered with iron sheets. Outside there was a wood and bamboo rack, bearing skulls. On the ground were assorted bones, collected and pressed together inside sacks, but sticking out of their torn cloth.
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Has Muasa Become A Political Party?

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| New Vision Uganda
The closure of the university has been the main and the original objective of regime change intellectuals who wanted to make it ungovernable. The closure of the university has been the main and the original objective of regime change intellectuals who wanted to make it ungovernable. OPINION By Professor Mahmood Mamdani Academics have often debated the question of power and knowledge.
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Insider’s view: Have regime change intellectuals captured

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Daily Monitor
By Mahmood MamdaniAsk a resident of Kampala, ask what the fuss at Makerere is all about and you will most likely be told that it is a confrontation between the vice chancellor and Makerere University Academic Staff (Muasa), and that the students have now entered the fray on the side of Muasa. Ask what is at stake and you are likely to be told that it is the freedom of staff and students to express views and to organise.
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LRB · Mahmood Mamdani · What is a tribe?

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
Mahmood MamdaniA new form of colonialism was born in the second half of the 19th century, largely in response to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Of its many theorists by far the most influential was Henry Maine, a brilliant historian of jurisprudence, barrister, journalist, colonial civil servant and eventually master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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LRB · Mahmood Mamdani · The Invention of the Indigène: Congo Explained

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
Mahmood MamdaniFor the institutions that claim to represent ‘the international community’ – the Western press, international NGOs and UN agencies – the armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been a paradigm of senseless violence. The number of casualties is indeed staggering. In 2001, the New-York-based International Rescue Committee started providing estimates of war-related deaths since the conflict began in 1998: they rose from 1.7 million in 2001 to 5.4 million in January 2008.
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I have a problem with Black Panther

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By Mahmood Mamdani, Alex Park
| Africa Is a Country
Black Panther has become a cultural phenomenon unparalleled by any other in recent memory. Rapturous audiences have all but deified the blockbuster film, a remake of a comic book tale about a superhero from the mythical African nation of Wakanda. Viewing the movie has proven especially cathartic for those sweltering under America’s racial politics.
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Trouble with Ethiopia’s ethnic federalism

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Daily Monitor
In SummaryAt a crossroads. Like much of Africa, Ethiopia is at a crossroads. Neither the centralised republic instituted by the Derg military junta in 1974 nor the ethnic federalism of Mr Zenawi’s 1994 Constitution points to a way forward. AdvertisementBy Mahmood Mamdani Abiy Ahmed, the 42-year-old prime minister of Ethiopia, has dazzled Africa with a volley of political reforms since his appointment in April.
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Opinion | The Trouble With Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| The New York Times
Abiy Ahmed, the 42-year-old prime minister of Ethiopia, has dazzled Africa with a volley of political reforms since his appointment in April. Mr. Abiy ended the 20-year border war with Eritrea, released political prisoners, removed bans on dissident groups and allowed their members to return from exile, declared press freedom and granted diverse political groups the freedom to mobilize and organize.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin

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By Mahmood Mamdani Topics, Mahmood Mamdani
| Monthly Review Online
Posted Dec 29, 2018 by Mahmood Mamdani Originally published: Africa Is a Country (December 23, 2018)   | In June 2010, Mahmood Mamdani was appointed Director of the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, which he since developed into what is arguably the premier center for graduate education in the social sciences and the humanities on the continent.
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On safari

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By Sean Jacobs, Mahmood Mamdani, Alex Park
| Africa Is a Country
This was a big one for us here at Africa is a Country. On January 22nd, I wrote: “The plan was to come back in the new year with the launch of our a newly designed website. This new site will be the first public manifestation of our partnership with the Jacobin Foundation. We tried to hold back the date we start publishing again until the new site was finished, but some technical glitches with the launch meant that we can’t wait any longer.
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Opinion | The Trouble With South Sudan’s New Peace Deal

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| The New York Times
The agreement says state boundaries will be drawn by an independent boundaries commission appointed by Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, the regional trade bloc, within two weeks of the signing of the agreement in Addis Ababa. The boundaries commission will be chaired by a non-South Sudanese and shall conduct a referendum “on the number and boundaries of States of the Republic of South Sudan” within eight months.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Africa Is a Country
In June 2010, Mahmood Mamdani was appointed Director of the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, which he since developed into what is arguably the premier center for graduate education in the social sciences and the humanities on the continent. On December 1, 2018, at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, Mamdani delivered the Hormood Lecture.
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The African University

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
It​ is striking, in the postcolonial era, how little the modern African university has to do with African institutions. It draws its inspiration from the colonial period and takes as its model the discipline based, gated community that maintained a distinction between clearly defined groups: administrators, academics and fee-paying students. The origins of this arrangement lay in 19th-century Berlin, and Humboldt University, founded in 1810 in the aftermath of Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia.
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LRB · Mahmood Mamdani · The African University

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
It is striking, in the postcolonial era, how little the modern African university has to do with African institutions. It draws its inspiration from the colonial period and takes as its model the discipline based, gated community that maintained a distinction between clearly defined groups: administrators, academics and fee-paying students. The origins of this arrangement lay in 19th-century Berlin, and Humboldt University, founded in 1810 in the aftermath of Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia.
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What Jason Didn’t Tell Gavin and His Army of Invisible Children

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Daily Monitor
Young adults recall the time from the mid-90s when over 80 per cent of the total population of three Acholi districts was forcibly interned in camps – the government claimed it was to “protect” them from the LRA. But there were allegations of murder, bombing, and burning of entire villages, first to force people into the camps and then to force them to stay put.
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LRB · Mahmood Mamdani · Lessons of Zimbabwe: Mugabe in Context

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe. Liberal and conservative commentators alike portray him as a brutal dictator, and blame him for Zimbabwe’s descent into hyperinflation and poverty. The seizure of white-owned farms by his black supporters has been depicted as a form of thuggery, and as a cause of the country’s declining production, as if these lands were doomed by black ownership.
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| penguinrandomhousesecondaryeducation.com
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani dispels the idea of “good” (secular, westernized) and “bad” (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities.
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Who is a Ugandan?

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By Mahmood Mamdani, Arshad Bholim
| Daily Monitor
Geography should therefore be the determinant; enabling a person to establish a right to the citizenship of Uganda without reference to whether they are of indigenous or immigrant heritage. This memorandum is presented by Asian Ugandans, members of the Asian African Association of Uganda, as a contribution to the debate on citizenship provisions in the Constitution.
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Ali Mazrui defined the terms of political debate for his generation

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Daily Monitor
We should think of Ali Mazrui as a long distance runner from a continent that specialises in giving the world some of its best long distance runners. Ali ran to his last breath: the ink kept flowing and the corpus kept growing, and the voice was as booming as ever. I first met Mazrui at Makerere University in 1972. I was a teaching fellow and had just embarked on my doctoral thesis. Ali was the professor. We came from two different generations. His was the last in the battle against colonialism.
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Opinion | Courts Can’t End Civil Wars (Published 2014)

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By Thabo Mbeki, Mahmood Mamdani
| The New York Times
The conflict in South Sudan is only the latest instance where extreme violence has erupted after a breakdown of political order. But rather than prioritizing political reform, the international community tends to focus on criminalizing the perpetrators of violence. Since the end of the Cold War, the world has looked to the Nuremberg Trials as a model for closure in the wake of extreme violence; international criminal trials are the preferred response.
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The Logic of Nuremberg

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| London Review of Books
In March, General Bosco Ntaganda, the ‘Terminator’, former chief of military operations for the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, voluntarily surrendered himself at the US embassy in Kigali and was flown to the headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The chargesheet included accusations of murder, rape, sexual slavery, persecution and pillage, offences documented in detail by Human Rights Watch over the last ten years.
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Nation state: Nyerere's legacy

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By Mahmood Mamdani
| Mail & Guardian
Assessments of Julius Nyerere, Tanzania’s first president, are conventionally focused on his quest for ujamaa, a just social order based on community solidarity. Whereas supporters hailed ujamaa as a creative adjustment of socialist thought to local realities, critics contemptuously dismissed it as a romantic and unscientific endeavour. Nyerere’s concern with social justice needs to be understood in the context of his overriding commitment to building a nation state.
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