Tag: NationState

In 1972, Mahmood Mamdani was among some 80,000 Ugandans of Indian origin who were expelled and made refugees by Idi Amin, who had taken power in a military coup the previous year. Mamdani had spent much of the prior decade in the United States, where he studied and participated in civil rights campaigns. He returned to Uganda, his childhood home, in early 1972 “as a convinced pan-African nationalist,” he wrote, “but was thrown out later in the year as an … Read more