Justice Not Revenge – Examining the Concept of Revolutionary Justice

(50 min)
Recording of Professor Mahmood Mamdani giving the Edward W Said London Lecture 2017 on 31 March 2017, at The British Museum, London. Prof. Mamdani is a Ugandan academic, author and political commentator, presently Chancellor, Kampala International University, Uganda; Director, Makerere Institute of Social Science Research; the Herbert Lehmann Professor of Government, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; and Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies, Columbia University. In the lecture Mamdani examines the question of justice in the postcolonial period, in the writings of Aime Cesaire and Nelson Mandela. He looks at how South Africa's transition from apartheid presents a critique of the lessons drawn from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals.