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Mahmood Mamdani

 

Mahmood Mamdani is the director of the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, and author of Saviors and Survivors and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim.

Articles

The country needs a political rebirth.

Mahmood Mamdani

Forum Responses

Stephen Walt’s essay has the great merit of broadening the debate on foreign policy at a time when institutional pressure has been narrowing it. With great moral and intellectual courage, Walt distinguishes...
Mahmood Mamdani

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