Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani, a third-generation East African of Indian descent, grew up in Uganda, studied at Harvard, taught at various African and American universities, and is currently Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. A political scientist and anthropologist, he is best known for Good Muslim, Bad Muslim and When Victims Become Killers. His latest book, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (Pantheon), meticulously exposes the tangled roots of the current conflict and the global forces at play in Darfur.