Mahmood Mamdani

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin had forcefully cemented his rule. He...

Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award Finalist "Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia and Africa."-Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books "Mamdani argues that the colonial 'define and rule' attitude towards ethnic or religious minorities lives on in...