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Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

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Personal name headingMamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
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Associated countryUganda
Associated placeUnited States
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1946-04-23
Place of birthKampala (Uganda)
Field of activityAnthropology International relations
AffiliationFletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Harvard University Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam Makerere University Codesria Centre for Basic Research (Kampala, Uganda)
Profession or occupationAnthropologists
Found inHis Imperialism and fascism in Uganda, 1983: t.p. (Mahmood Mamdani, senior lecturer in pol. sci., Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
LC data base, 4/35/84 (hdg.: Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- )
When victims become killers, 2001: CIP t.p. (Mahmood Mamdani) data sheet (b. 04-23-46) galley (currently Herbert Lehman Prof. of Government and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University)
Good Muslim, bad Muslim, 2004: p. 305 (Mahmood Mamdani grew up in Kampala, Uganda, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1974; professor in the departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, and director of the Institute of International Studies at Columbia University; taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam inTanzania, Makerere University in Kampala, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He lives in New York and Kampala.)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mamdani, Mahmood; anthropologist; born 1947 in Kampala, Uganda; earned a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; received a doctorate in government from Harvard University; was a refugee in Britain until he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; returned to Uganda after Idi Amin was overthrown (1979); was a scholar at Makerere University in Kampala (1980-1993) and then at the University of Cape Town (1996-1999); moved to Columbia University in New York; was president of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, founding director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda (1987-1996), director of Makerere Institute of Social Research in Uganda; his book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996) won the 1998 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association of the United States; was included among the 100 top public intellectuals alive in the world by Foreign Policy (published in the United States) and Prospect (United Kingdom))
National bib agency no.1045C9410E
Associated languageeng
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