Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani
Born	April 23, 1946 (1946-04-23) (age 65) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Professor
Years active	1974–present
Spouse	Mira Nair (1988–present)

Mahmood Mamdani is an academic, author and political commentator. He is a Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, New York. He grew up in Uganda and acquired his B.A from the University of Pittsburgh, before going on to attain his Masters and PhD from Harvard University in 1974. Mamdani specializes in the study of African and international politics, colonialism and post‐colonialism, and the politics of knowledge production.

His works explore the intersection between politics and culture, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, and the history and theory of human rights.^[1] Prior to taking the directorship of MISR in 2010 and joining the Columbia faculty in 1999, Mamdani was a professor at the University of Dar‐es‐Salaam (1973‐79), Makerere University (1980‐1993), and the University of Cape Town (1996‐1999).

In 2008, in a open online poll, Mamdani was voted as the 9th topmost intellectual person in the world on the list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (US).^[2] He received honorary doctorate from Addis Ababa University and the University of Johannesburg, both in 2010. From 1998 to 2002 he served as President of CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa). His essays have appeared in London Review of Books, among other journals.^[3]

Works

• "Uganda Studies in Labour (Codesria Book Series)"
• "Scholars in the Marketplace. The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005"
• "From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain"
• "Academic Freedom in Africa"
• "Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda"
• "Studies in Labor Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Universities-National Bureau Conference Ser)"
• "Politics and Class Formation in Uganda"
• "African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy (Actes-Sud Papiers,)"
• "Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture"
• "The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste and Class in an indian Village"
• "Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism"
• When Victims Become Killers
• Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
• Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror^[4]

References

1. ^ Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh, The future almost arrived: how Jimmy Carter failed to change U.S. foreign policy, Peter Lang, 2008, p. 169
2. ^ http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/prospect-100-intellectuals/
3. ^ www.mahmood-mamdani.com.
4. ^ www.mahmood-mamdani.com.

External links

• Faculty web-page at Columbia University

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Name	Mamdani, Mahmood
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Date of birth	April 23, 1946
Place of birth	Bombay, Maharashtra, India
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