Mahmood Mamdani
| Mahmood Mamdani | |
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| 20th Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research | |
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Assumed office June 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Nakanyike Musisi |
| Director of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University | |
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In office 1999–2004 |
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| Preceded by | George Bond |
| Succeeded by | Mamadou Diouf |
| Director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town | |
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In office 1996–1999 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 April 1946 Mumbai, British India |
| Nationality | Ugandan |
| Spouse(s) | Mira Nair (m. 1991) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence |
Kampala, Uganda New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of Pittsburgh (BA) Fletcher School (MA), (MALD) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Professorships |
UDSM (1973–79) Makerere (1980–93) UCT (1996–99) |
| Notable work(s) | Citizen and Subject |
| Notable Awards |
Herskovits Prize (1997) Lenfest Award (2011) |
Professor Mahmood Mamdani (born 23 April 1946) is a Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. He is the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies at Columbia University.
Mamdani is a third generation Ugandan of Indian ancestry. He was born in Mumbai and grew up in Kampala. Both his parents were born in the neighbouring Tanganyika Territory (present day Tanzania). He was educated at the Government Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Government Primary School in Masaka, K.S.I. Primary School in Kampala, Shimoni and Nakivubo Government Primary Schools in Kampala and at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School.
He received a scholarship along with 26 other Ugandan students to study in the United States. The scholarships were part of the independence gift that the new nation had received. Mamdani joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1967.
He was among the many northern students who made the bus journey south to Birmingham, Alabama organised by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to participate in the civil rights movement. He was jailed during the march and was allowed to make a phone call. Mamdani called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, D.C for assistance. The ambassador asked him why he was 'interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country' to which he responded by saying that this was not an internal affair but a freedom struggle and that they too had gotten their freedom only last year.
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