Books by Mahmood Mamdani

The second is Mahmood Mamdani, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State .  I ordered this one before I knew who wrote it, namely Papa Mamdani.  Again, there is plenty you can object to here, but it is an actual (partial) history of Uganda, interwoven with autobiography.  The author actually tries to explain to you what was going on, rather than writing to “fill a gap in the literature,” or whatever.  Too bad his actual views are so objectionable — Papa Mamdani,...

3. Mahmood Mamdani, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror .  This revisionist account argues the conflict is political rather than racial and that the notion of "genocide" is an externally imposed category for international political reasons.  I found the arguments of this book hard to assess but it made for stimulating reading.