Convocation: Mahmood Mamdani

Originally from Kampala, Uganda, Mahmood Mamdani is one of the leading experts on African politics and history, as well as the relationship between Islam and the war on terror. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He is currently Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Origins of Terror, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda, and Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. The title of his lecture is "The Secular Roots of Radical Political Islam."