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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mahmood Mamdani, FBA is an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. He was the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research from 2010 until February 2022, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and the Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies at Columbia University.
Mahmood Mamdani's Published Works
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- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1997) (1813)
- When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (2001) (1480)
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism (2002) (387)
- Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (2003) (370)
- Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror (2004) (338)
- Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism (2001) (333)
- Politics and Class Formation in Uganda (1976) (252)
- Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity (2012) (212)
- The myth of population control : family, caste, and class in an Indian village (1974) (200)
- Amnesty or Impunity? A Preliminary Critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC) (2005) (199)
- Scholars in the Marketplace. The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 (2007) (192)
- Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2010) (165)
- Reconciliation without justice (1997) (154)
- When does a settler become a native? : reflections of the colonial roots of citizenship in equatorial and South Africa (1998) (132)
- Between the public intellectual and the scholar: decolonization and some post-independence initiatives in African higher education (2016) (113)
- Citizen and Subject (2018) (113)
- The myth of population control. (1974) (104)
- Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? (2010) (103)
- When Victims Become Killers (2020) (102)
- African states, citizenship and war: a case–study† (2002) (95)
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (2004) (90)
- Extreme but not exceptional: Towards an analysis of the agrarian question in Uganda (1987) (88)
- Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa (2003) (87)
- Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture (2000) (87)
- Neither Settler nor Native (2020) (83)
- University crisis and reform: a reflection on the African experience (1993) (78)
- Settler Colonialism: Then and Now (2015) (77)
- The Social Basis of Constitutionalism in Africa (1990) (73)
- Higher education, the state and the marketplace (2008) (66)
- There can be no African renaissance without an African focused intelligentsia (1999) (58)
- Historicizing power and responses to power: indirect rule and its reform. (1999) (56)
- Is African studies to be turned into a new home for Bantu education at UCT (1998) (51)
- Academic freedom in Africa (1996) (51)
- The Importance of Research in a University (2017) (47)
- Citizen and Subject, Decentralized Despotism and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1997) (47)
- “Political Identity, Citizenship and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Africa” (2005) (46)
- State and Civil Society in Contemporary Africa: Reconceptualizing the Birth of State Nationalism and the Defeat of Popular Movements (1990) (42)
- Social movements and constitutionalism in the African context (1989) (40)
- Indirect Rule, Civil Society, and Ethnicity: The Africa Dilemma (1996) (40)
- Beyond Nuremberg (2015) (39)
- From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain (1973) (37)
- Uganda: Contradictions of the IMF Programme and Perspective (1990) (37)
- Imperialism and fascism in Uganda (1983) (36)
- Africa Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles (1992) (36)
- Karamoja: Colonial Roots of Famine in North-East Uganda (1982) (34)
- Social movements, social transformation and the struggle for democracy in Africa (1988) (32)
- Uganda in Transition: Two Years of the NRA/NRM (1988) (31)
- A Brief History of Genocide (2001) (30)
- Teaching Africa at the Post-Apartheid University of Cape Town: A Critical View of the 'Introduction to Africa' Core Course in the Social Science and Humanities Faculty's Foundation Semester, 1998 (1998) (26)
- Preliminary Thoughts on the Congo Crisis (1999) (24)
- Crises and reconstruction - African perspectives. Development theory and Africa's future. From justice to reconciliation : making sense of the African experience (1997) (23)
- An African Reflection on Tahrir Square (2011) (23)
- A Glimpse at African Studies, Made in USA (1989) (23)
- Understanding the crisis in Kivu : report of the CODESRIA Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, September, 1997 (2001) (22)
- The Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Twenty Years After (1993) (21)
- Africa ’ s Management in the 1990 s and Beyond : Reconciling Indigenous and Transplanted Institutions (2002) (21)
- Decolonising Universities (2019) (21)
- Class struggles in Uganda (1975) (21)
- The ideology of population control. (1974) (20)
- The Logic of Nuremberg (2013) (20)
- Indirect rule and the struggle for democracy: a response to Bridget O'Laughlin (2000) (19)
- Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives. Edited by John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xii+318. (2001) (19)
- Karamoja : ecology and history (1992) (18)
- The African University (2018) (18)
- Uganda : studies in living conditions, popular movements, and constitutionalism (1994) (18)
- Pluralism and the right of association (1993) (18)
- Whither Political Islam? Understanding the Modern Jihad (2005) (16)
- The Politics of Democratic Reform in Contemporary Uganda (1995) (16)
- A Response to Critics (1991) (15)
- What is a Tribe (2012) (13)
- Centre for African studies: Some preliminary thoughts (1996) (11)
- Uganda Studies In Labour (1968) (10)
- The South African Moment (2015) (10)
- A reflection on higher education in equatorial Africa : some lessons for South Africa (1995) (8)
- Makgoba: Victim of the ‘racialised power’ entrenched at Wits (1997) (7)
- Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances: Amnesty or impunity? A preliminary critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (2007) (7)
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Post‐Apartheid Perspectives on America and Israel (2004) (7)
- The Sun is Not Always Dead at Midnight; Comments on Mamdani (1993) (7)
- The world and Africa . Color and democracy : colonies and peace (2007) (6)
- Response by Mahmood Mamdani (2009) (6)
- Symposium on 11 September 2001 Terrorism, Islam and the West (2002) (6)
- The International Criminal Court's Case against the President of Sudan: A Critical Look (2009) (6)
- 5. The Politics of Peasant Ethnic Communities and Urban Civil Society: Reflections of an African Dilemma (2000) (6)
- Hearts in Exile (2001) (5)
- Reading Ibn Khaldun in Kampala (2017) (4)
- The Asian question again: a reflection (2007) (4)
- Disaster Prevention: Defining the Problem (1985) (4)
- The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste and Class in an Indian Village (1974) (4)
- The nationality question in a neo-colony; a historical perspective (1983) (4)
- Preliminary thoughts on Darfur (2004) (4)
- Woza Lugard? Rhetoric and Antiquarian Knowledge (2000) (3)
- Beyond Nuremberg : learning from the post-apartheid transition in South Africa (2015) (3)
- Mamdani's History (2000) (3)
- Amnesty or Impunity (2013) (3)
- A Rejoinder to Critics (2004) (2)
- Introduction: A Critique of Eurocentrism: Then and Now (2016) (2)
- Forms of labour and accumulation of capital: analysis of a village in Lango, Northern Uganda (1983) (2)
- A Great Leap Backwards: A Review of Goran Hyden's No Shortcut to Progress - eScholarship (1985) (2)
- The Unanswered Question: Attempting to Explain the Rwandan Genocide (2001) (2)
- Crises and reconstruction- African perspectives : two lectures (1997) (2)
- Analyzing the agrarian question: the case of a Buganda village (1983) (2)
- Race and Ethnicity in the African Context (2005) (2)
- Place, interest and political agency: some questions for Michael Neocosmos (2019) (2)
- A tribute to Steve Biko (2013) (1)
- Configuring the Trajectory of African Political History (2000) (1)
- From Direct to Indirect Rule (2020) (1)
- 2. The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi (2001) (1)
- Asians in East Africa: Their Origin and Sociological Composition (1969) (1)
- Define and Rule : Native as Political Identity , by Mahmood Mamdani (2013) (1)
- A GREAT LEAP BACKWARD: A REVIEW OF GORAN HYDEN ' S NO SHORTCUTS TO PROGRESS (2013) (1)
- Politics and Class Formation in Uganda.@@@Class Struggles in Tanzania. (1977) (1)
- An African Perspective on Contemporary Terrorism (2002) (1)
- Introduction (2009) (1)
- A Counter‐trend (1995) (1)
- THE DISTINCTIVE FACE OF APARTHEID. Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa . By I VAN E VANS . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+416. $55. (ISBN 0-520-20651-7). (1999) (1)
- Some considerations on the national question and the democratic struggle in Uganda (1987) (1)
- A political perspective on contemporary terrorism (2002) (1)
- Remembering a friend and comrade (2016) (1)
- Introduction: Trans-African Slaveries Thinking Historically (2018) (1)
- 7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? (2020) (0)
- An African Perspective on Contemporary Terrorism (2002) (0)
- South Africa in transition: problems and prospects (1998) (0)
- Context for Those Who Would Demonize (2010) (0)
- Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India.@@@The Myth of Population Control. (1973) (0)
- How Not to Intervene in Internal Conflicts (1989) (0)
- The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform REVIEW ESSAYS MAHMOOD MAMDANI’S SCHOLARS IN THE MARKET PLACE (2009) (0)
- Political Violence and Political Justice: A Critique of Criminal Justice as Accountability (2015) (0)
- The Nation-State and its Minorities: Some Questions on Reading Madhav Khosla, India’s Founding Moment (2021) (0)
- Lin Chin Rethinking land reform : comparative lessons from China and India (2016) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- 3. The Racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi Difference under Colonialism (2001) (0)
- Preface and Acknowledgments: Decolonizing Area Studies (2001) (0)
- Uganda "Today" - eScholarship (1987) (0)
- Special Issue: Peacemaking and Peace Agreements in South Sudan (2019) (0)
- Chapter two. Nativism: The Practice (2012) (0)
- Some Questions Regarding the Independence of South Sudan (2014) (0)
- Contributors (1998) (0)
- Chapter one. Nativism: The Theory Sir Henry Maine and the Post-1857 Crisis of Empire (2012) (0)
- Class and Politics: Tanzania and Uganda (1978) (0)
- Chapter Four .The “Social Revolution” of 1959 (2001) (0)
- Chapter three. Beyond Settlers and Natives The Theory and Practice of Decolonization (2012) (0)
- Tribute to Professor Ali Al’amin Mazrui, 1933-2014:: One of the World’s Most Renowned Scholars (2016) (0)
- General Assembly Distinguished Lectures. Kampala, 2002 (2000) (0)
- Questions arising about the African diaspora (2007) (0)
- Chapter Eight. Tutsi Power in Rwanda and the Citizenship Crisis in Eastern Congo (2001) (0)
- 1. The Indian Question in the United States (2020) (0)
- Political Representation: Settlers and natives in North America (2010) (0)
- Primacy of the Political Community: a response to critics (2022) (0)
- Iraq: Collective Punishment in War and Peace (2003) (0)
- Introduction: Thinking about Genocide (2001) (0)
- Population Adventures and Misadventures on the Subcontinent (1973) (0)
- Book review: War of words, war of stones: racial thought and violence in colonial Zanzibar, by Jonathon Glassman (2013) (0)
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