Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University, New York. He is also the current President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal. One of his best known books is ' When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda'. (Princeton University Press, 2002). Mamdani's reputation as an expert in African history, politics and international relations has made him an important voice in contemporary debates about Africa.His book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton University Press, 1996) won the prestigious Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association of the USA (1998). Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... (City of Dakar, divided into 19 communes darrondissement) City proper (commune) Région Dakar Département Dakar Mayor Pape Diop (PDS) (since 2002) Area 82. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ...

Mamdani was born in 1947, in Kampala Uganda. At the country's independence from Britain, in 1962, Mr. Mamdani was offered a scholarship by the United States government. He attended the University of Pittsburgh and studied for his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he led graduate students in a strike to protest a tuition hike. He returned to Uganda, only to be forced to leave the country by the dictator Idi Amin, who deported the Indians and confiscated their property. Mr. Mamdani lived as a refugee in Britain before getting a teaching job at the University of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania. He returned to Uganda when Idi Amin was overthrown and Milton Obote came to power. In the next years he did adult literacy programs and political activities among railway workers and started working at the Makerere University in Kampala. Kampala Skyline Location of Kampala within Uganda. ... The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Dar es Salaam (دار السلام), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city (pop. ... Idi Amin on a ten-shilling note Idi Amin (c. ... Obote pictured at the beginning of his second regime in 1980 Apollo Milton Obote (December 28, 1924, Apac, Uganda – October 10, 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa), Prime Minister of Uganda 1962-1966 and President of Uganda 1966-1971/1980-1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence...

Education:

• B.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1967.
• M.A., A.A.L.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1969.
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974.
• Foreign languages known: French, Gujarati, Hindi, Luganda, Punjabi, Swahili, Urdu.
• He has taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam (1973-79), Makerere University (1980-93), and University of Cape Town (1996-99) and was the founding director of Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda (1987-96).

Mamdani is married to the Indian film director Mira Nair (born 1957). They have a son Zohran. (born 1991) The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Tufts University is a private university located in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Gujarati (ગુજરાતી GujarātÄ«) is an Indo-Aryan language, part of the greater Indo-European language family. ... Hindi (हिन्दी or हिंदी in DevanāgarÄ«; pronunciation: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the official languages of the Union government of India. ... Luganda is a Bantu language and is spoken mainly in Uganda by the people of Buganda. ... Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjābÄ« in ShāhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ... The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under mainlyPersian influence in Central and South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... , City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area  - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population  - Total (2004)  - Density Ranked 100th 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2... Kampala Skyline Location of Kampala within Uganda. ... Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is a New York-based Indian film director. ...

Selected Publications:

• When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and Genocide in Rwanda, (Princeton Univ. Press, 2004).
• "When Does a Settler Become a Native? Reflections of the Colonial Roots of Citizenship in Equatorial and South Africa" Text of Inaugral Lecture as A. C. Jordan Professor of African Studies, University of Cape Town, Lecture Theatre 1, Education Building, Middle Campus, Wednesday 13 May 1998, 8.15 p.m.
• Report of the CODESRIA Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo eptember, 1997. Text of report submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations
• Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar,Senegal, December 14-18, 1998, page 2
• Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative essays on Rights and Culture, ed. (St. Martin's Press, 2000).
• Crisis and Reconstruction -- African Perspectives: Two Lectures, with Colin Leys (Nordiska Afrikainsinstutet, 1998).
• Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996).
• And Fire Does not Always Beget Ash: Critical Reflections on the NRM (1996).
• Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda (Africa World Press, Inc., 1983).
• Politics and Class Formation in Uganda, (Monthly Review Press, 1976).
• Myth of Population Control, (Monthly Review Press, 1973)
• Good Muslim Bad Muslim : America, The Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (New York, Three Leaves Press/Random House, Inc., July 2005)[1]

Reference

Columbia University [2]

External link

When Victims Become Killers:Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, published by Princeton University, 2001, Introductory Chapter [3]