{"id":204661,"date":"2026-01-15T04:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204661"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:59:35","slug":"the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204661","title":{"rendered":"The making and breaking of Uganda: an interview with scholar Mahmood Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially critical to liberation politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-272181\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani.jpg",1356,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-300x148.jpg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-768x378.jpg",640,315,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-1024x504.jpg",640,315,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani.jpg",1356,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani.jpg",1356,668,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-1024x504.jpg",1024,504,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204661-the-making-and-breaking-of-uganda-an-interview-with-scholar-mahmood-mamdani-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}