Zohran Mamdani: “Uganda won its independence from the British in 1962.”

“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 in 1962. the United States government granted Uganda 23 scholarships. 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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