‘I couldn’t recognize a single person because everybody I knew had been expelled": Mahmood Mamdani recalls life in Uganda aft | CNN

‘I couldn’t recognize a single person because everybody I knew had been expelled": Mahmood Mamdani recalls life in Uganda aft

Published 3:00 PM EST, Fri January 23, 2026

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"I couldn’t recognize a single person because everybody I knew had been expelled": Mahmood Mamdani recalls life in Uganda aft

Uganda is once again confronting deep questions about power and political continuity. Mahmood Mamdani, whose "Slow Poison" offers a tragic personal account of Uganda's postcolonial fate, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the experience of living in fragmentation.

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