Zohran Mamdani: “The United States government granted Uganda 23 scholarships…”

“Came to this city when I was seven years old. But I want to tell you a story about another man from Uganda. My father. In 1962, when Uganda won its independence from the British, The United States government granted Uganda 23 scholarships [in 1962]. And my father won one of those scholarships. And he came to this country as a student at the University of Pittsburgh, came to be an electrical engineer.” (00:39–00:48)

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