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Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and moved to New York City with his family when he was about seven years old (multiple bios give age seven) . Reporting and biographical profiles attr...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born in Kampala in 1991, moved with his family to South Africa and then New York City at about age seven, attended Bank Street School for his early schooling and Bronx High Sc...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1991, spent early childhood years in Uganda and Cape Town, South Africa, and moved to New York City with his family at about age seven when his fat...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s formal education, as reported in multiple profiles, runs from progressive elementary schooling at Bank Street School for Children to Bronx High School of Science and a Bachelor’...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda in October 1991 to two high‑profile parents: Mira Nair, an acclaimed Indian filmmaker, and Mahmood Mamdani, a prominent scholar of colonialism who is a...
Mahmood Mamdani’s family background and several biographical accounts place him within a cultural and familial context—specifically originating from a Gujarati Khoja background associated with Shia Is...
Zohran Mamdani’s politics and public life are rooted in a transnational family story of anti-colonial scholarship and cultural activism: he was born in Kampala in 1991 to scholar Mahmood Mamdani and f...
Mahmood Mamdani was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1946 and grew up in Kampala, Uganda; multiple provided sources agree on his birthplace and upbringing but or reliably state their birthplaces. One an...
Zohran Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies, and his campus activism — including co‑founding a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and writ...
Mahmood Mamdani’s family migration story centers on a transnational arc from , shaped decisively by the 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda under Idi Amin and by his academic migrations for study and...
Mahmood Mamdani’s family migration and his personal experience of expulsion from Uganda are central, repeatedly cited explanations for his scholarly focus on refugees, exile, and the legacies of colon...
The reporting supplied contains two competing portraits: long-serving New York mayor Eric Adams with a law-enforcement and public-administration background, and a more recent account naming Zohran Mam...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is ethnically South Asian—born in Kampala, Uganda to parents of Indian descent—and culturally shaped by a blend of Indian, East African and American influences stemming directly f...
Zohran Mamdani’s family background — son of postcolonial scholar Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair, born in Kampala and raised in a transnational household — is repeatedly cited by reporting as ...
Zohran Mamdani’s upbringing — born in Kampala to acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair and scholar Mahmood Mamdani, raised partly in the U.S., attending Bronx High School of Science and Bowdoin College — is r...
Zohran Mamdani’s upbringing in the United States combined progressive private-school training in Manhattan with an Ivy-ish liberal arts college education: he attended the Bank Street School for Childr...
Zohran Mamdani’s upbringing — born in Kampala to academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair, raised in Queens and active early as a community organizer and foreclosure counselor — appears repeat...
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Queens assemblyman and self-described democratic socialist, won the 2025 New York City mayoral election and will become the city’s 111th mayor and its first Muslim mayor,...
Available reporting in the provided results shows no authoritative public record that Mahmood Mamdani (the Columbia scholar and father of Zohran Mamdani) has been formally investigated by a counter‑ex...
Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda on October 18, 1991, to scholar Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair, spent early childhood years in Uganda and Cape Town, South Africa, and moved t...