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Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani works from Kampala/New York. I am a Ugandan academic interested in how to understand and act in the world as is. Executive Director of @MISR_Mak and Professor at @Columbia. Mahmood Mamdani has over 12711 followers on Twitter.
Our universities need relevance and excellence
In shaping Africa’s universities we should take the best from two examples: Dar and Makerere
Nation state: Nyerere’s legacy
Julius Nyerere shunned populist Africanisation and curtailed civil liberties to attain his dream.
Africa’s post-colonial scourge
The ‘consultancy culture’ at universities across the continent has a corrosive effect on education.
Beware Human Rights Fundamentalism!
The South African lesson has guided African practice in difficult situations. In Mozambique Renamo sits in Parliament instead of in jail.
Will the UN occupy Darfur?
Significant changes are currently taking place on the ground in Darfur. The peacekeeping forces of the African Union (AU) are being replaced by a hybrid AU-UN force under overall…
Darfur: the politics of naming
The similarities between Iraq and Darfur are remarkable. The estimate of the number of civilians killed over the past three years is roughly similar. The killers are mostly…
The assault on African education
The assault on the developmentalist university came from the new global development bureaucracy, particularly the Bretton Woods institutions. They were home to a radically…