Mamdani's progressive vision for New York
shaped by childhood in Uganda, mentors say
Posted By: NorthernDog, 11/7/2025 8:50:43 AM
KAMPALA - When Zohran Mamdani inveighed against inequality and corruption during his underdog bid for New York City mayor, Joseph Beyanga at Uganda's Daily Monitor could hear echoes of conversations almost 20 years earlier with the then-intern on the newspaper's sports desk. "Mamdani would sit with me in the production room. He would always ask me, so who is affected by this one? Who pays the price?" Beyanga, the Daily Monitor's media manager, told Reuters. (Snip) The son of a Ugandan academic of Indian origins and an Indian-American filmmaker, Mamdani was born and spent several years as a child in Uganda's
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Isn't that the problem? They come here from some 3rd-world country and want to impose a vision where people live in grass huts and eat bushmeat for dinner.