Mahmood Mamdani, Father of Mamdani and Expert on Postcolonial Studies
Zohran Mamdani, expected to be the Democratic nominee for New York City, has deep-rooted connections through his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a prominent postcolonial scholar at Columbia University. Mahmood Mamdani and his family were expelled from Uganda during the 1970s. This expulsion was part of Idi Amin’s nationalist movement that targeted “Asians,” a term encompassing those […]
Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth | Nobel economics prize
Three U.S.-based academics, including two British-born academics, have been recognized for their work showing how the types of institutions introduced by colonizers helped determine whether countries are rich or poor today. A professor has won this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. The explanation put forward by Turkish-American Daron Acemol, Sheffield-born Simon Johnson, and British James […]
Five of the best postcolonial novels | Books
NChinua Achebe, the epic novelist hailed as the father of African literature, once spoke of African literature's complicity in colonialism, saying: This is a matter of life and death because we are creating a new human being. ” Extravagant or not, generations of writers have long explored the cruel consequences of colonialism, past and present. […]