A Historic Mandate And Democracy’s Response to Anti-Muslim Xenophobia in the West
Mamdani’s biography itself challenges the xenophobic narratives that have come to define anti-Muslim political campaigns in the West. Born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1991, he represents the cosmopolitan heritage of contemporary multiculturalism. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a renowned academic and professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University