Leading New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father has been accused of trying to silence an LGBTQ professor in Uganda by padlocking her office, withholding her pay and pushing her out of his department at Makerere University, The Post has learned.

Mahmood Mamdani, 79, blocked Stella Nyanzi, 51, from teaching a course in “Queer African Studies” at the Makerere Institute of Social Research in April 2016, Nyanzi claimed to The Post Thursday.

Mamdani Snr., a professor in the department of anthropology at Columbia University in New York, was also director of MISR in Kampala between 2010 and 2022. 9

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Nyanzi at one point stripped naked , taped her mouth and chained herself to the university’s doors in order to protest the measures taken against her.

“Regarding Prof. Mahmo

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