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Mahmood Mamdani
Ugandan academic
browse: anthropologists, university teachers, writers
alive
- born
- 1946
- died
- no date on record
- age
- 80
- known for
- anthropologist, university teacher, writer
born 1946

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who mahmood mamdani is
Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan anthropologist, academic, and political commentator. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia University. He also served as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda, and honorary professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
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