Saturday, April 18, 2009

Mahmood Mamdani

A patron who calls regularly on Saturdays asked for books by Mahmood Mamdani.

When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda (2001)
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror (2004)
Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on terror (2008)

Mahmood Mamdani (b. 1947 in Kampala, Uganda) is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States. He is also the Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies. He is a former President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.

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