Radical Roots: Mamdani’s Father, Mahmood Mamdani, Postcolonial Scholar

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for New York City mayor, has radical roots — notably his father, Mahmood, a prominent postcolonial scholar at Columbia University.

Mahmood Mamdani was expelled, with his family, from Uganda in the 1970s, when the African nationalist regime of Idi Amin kicked out “Asians” — i.e. people of Indian descent, many of whom were involved in trade and the professions.

Mamdani reflected in 2022 on that experience in an essay in which he said that “Ugandan Asians are a poor fit as victims,” partly because they had been a commercial elite, and partly because the expulsion allowed them entry into…

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