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In a campaign season dominated by polished resumes and party-line promises, one mayoral candidate in New York City is running with something different — a life that reads more like a migration map than a manifesto. Zohran Kwame Mamdani, born in Kampala, Uganda, on October 18, 1991, has built his politics not from textbooks, but from the borders, battles, and backstreets that shaped his education.His journey to the 2025 mayoral race began in classrooms across Uganda, Sout
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