{UAH} AND A KENYAN SCHOLAR PROF. ALI MAZURUI PASSES AWAY

Prof. Ali Mazrui dead

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He is renowned for his great works of literature and his concern for the African continent and all Africans across the globe.

Prof. Ali Mazrui

His prowess as an academia is unquestionable. He has lived to inspire many and build a legacy that will for sure prove hard to match.

News, bad news for that matter, is all over the air that Prof. Ali Mazrui has passed away. It is with great sorrow to learn of his death when Kenya is celebrating him as one of her own children of the land who has excelled beyond borders academically, to inspire many who came across his great works; from contemporary African issues to politics.

Prof. Mazrui is renowned for his research in African politics, international political culture, political Islam and North-South relations. He is author or co-author of more than twenty books.

Mazrui has also published hundreds of articles in major scholastic journals and for public media. He also served on the editorial boards of more than twenty international scholarly journals. Mazrui was widely consulted by heads of states and governments, international media and research institutions for political strategies and alternative thoughts.

In addition to his written work Prof. Mazrui was also the creator of the television series The Africans: A Triple Heritage, which was jointly produced by the BBC and the Public Broadcasting Service (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian Television Authority, and funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project. A book by the same title was jointly published by BBC Publications and Little, Brown and Company.

He also won several awards during his days. These include:

Millennium Tribute for Outstanding Scholarship, House of Lords, Parliament Buildings, London, June 2000

Special Award from the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (United Kingdom), honoring Mazrui for his contribution to the social sciences and Islamic studies, June 2000

Honorary Doctorate of Letters from various universities for fields which include Divinity, Humane Letters, and the Sciences of Development
Icon of the Twentieth Century, elected by Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1998

Appointed Walter Rodney Professor, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana, 1998

Icon of the Twentieth Century Award, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1998

DuBois-Garvey Award for Pan-African Unity, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998

Appointed Ibn-Khaldun Professor-at-Large, School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, Virginia, 1997–2001

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988

Appointed Distinguished Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (1986–1992) (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Ali Al’amin Mazrui was an academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. He was an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.

He was born on February 24, 1933 in Mombasa, Kenya.

Ghafla Kenya sends deep condolences to the family, relatives, friends and all Kenyans for the loss of Prof. Ali Mazrui.

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