Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan academic, author, 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 serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda. He was previously the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala, Uganda, from 2010 until 2022.