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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, will deliver a free public lecture titled "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror," on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture gallery of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. A book signing and reception will follow in the A.D. White House.
Mamdani's reputation as an expert in African history, politics and international relations has made him an important voice in contemporary debates about the changing role of Africa in a global context. His bookCitizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton University Press, 1996) has been hailed as one of the best scholarly works on Africa published in English, and it won the prestigious Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association of the USA (1998).
Mamdini is the founding director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda, and is the current president of the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa, which is Africa's social science body based in Senegal. His current work focuses on internal conflict and civil war in Africa, with particular attention given to the political and social restructuring that such conflict elicits.
The event is part of a Cornell Fall 2004 series titled "Human Rights, Genocide and Intervention" organized by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the Society for Humanities and the Institute for African Development.
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