Ali Mazrui

Professor Ali Mazrui
Born	(1933-02-24)24 February 1933 Mombasa, Kenya Colony
Died	12 October 2014(2014-10-12) (aged 81) Vestal, New York, United States
Resting place	Mazrui Graveyard, Mombasa 4°03′43″S 39°40′44″E / 4.061843°S 39.678912°E / -4.061843; 39.678912
Nationality	Kenyan
Ethnicity	Swahili
Alma mater	Manchester University (BA) Columbia University (MA) Oxford University (PhD)
Occupation	Academic and political author
Years active	1966 — 2014
Television	The Africans: A Triple Heritage
Religion	Islam
Spouse(s)	Molly Vickerman Pauline Uti
Children	5
Awards	Order of the Burning Spear Top 100 Public Intellectuals (2005)
Website	www.alimazrui.com

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), 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.^[1][2]

Early Life

Mazrui was born on 24 February 1933 in Mombasa, Kenya Colony.^[3] He was the son of Al-Amin Bin Ali Mazrui, the Chief Islamic Judge in Kadhi courts of Kenya Colony. Mazrui initially intended to follow the path of his father as an Islamist and pursue his study in Al-Azhar University in Egypt. ^[4] Due to poor performance in the Cambridge School Certificate examination in 1949, Mazrui was refused entry to Makerere College (now Makerere University), the only tertiary education institute in East Africa at that time. He then worked in the Mombasa Institute of Muslim Education (now Technical University of Mombasa).^[4]

Education

After getting a Kenyan Government scholarship,^[4] Mazrui furthered his study and obtained his B.A. with Distinction from Manchester University in Great Britain in 1960, his M.A. from Columbia University in New York in 1961, and his doctorate (DPhil) from Oxford University (Nuffield College) in 1966.^[5] He was influenced by Kwame Nkrumah's ideas of pan-Africanism and consciencism, which formed the backbone of his discussion on Africa's Triple Heritage (Africanity, Islam and Christianity).^[4]

Early career

Upon completing his education at Oxford University, Mazrui joined Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), where he served as head of the Department of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He served at Makerere University until 1973, when he was forced into exile by Idi Amin. In 1974, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan as professor and later was appointed the Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (1978–81). In 1989, he was appointed to the faculty of Binghamton University, State University of New York as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS).^[6]

International acclaim

In addition to his appointments as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Professor in Political Science, African Studies, Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS), Mazrui also holds three concurrent faculty appointments as Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria, Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Chancellor of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya. In 1999, Mazrui retired as the inaugural Walter Rodney Professor at the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana. Mazrui has also been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, The University of Chicago, Colgate University, McGill University, National University of Singapore, Oxford University, Harvard University, Bridgewater State College, Ohio State University, and at other institutions in Cairo, Australia, Leeds, Nairobi, Teheran, Denver, London, Baghdad, and Sussex, amongst others. In 2005, Ali Mazrui was selected as the 73rd topmost intellectual person in the world on the list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (United States).^[7]

Professional organizations

In addition to his academic appointments, Mazrui also served as President of the African Studies Association (USA) and as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association and has also served as Special Advisor to the World Bank. He has also served on the Board of the American Muslim Council, Washington, D.C.

Works

Mazrui's research interests included 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 has 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.

He first rose to prominence as a critic of some of the accepted orthodoxies of African intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. He was critical of African socialism and all strains of Marxism. He argued that communism was a Western import just as unsuited for the African condition as the earlier colonial attempts to install European type governments. He argued that a revised liberalism could help the continent and described himself as a proponent of a unique ideology of African liberalism.

At the same time he was a prominent critic of the current world order. He believed the current capitalist system was deeply exploitative of Africa, and that the West rarely if ever lived up to their liberal ideals and could be described as global apartheid. He has opposed Western interventions in the developing world, such as the Iraq War. He has also long been opposed to many of the policies of Israel, being one of the first to try to link the treatment of Palestinians with South Africa's apartheid.^[8]

Especially in recent years, Mazrui has also become a well known commentator on Islam and Islamism. While rejecting violence and terrorism Mazrui has praised some of the anti-imperialist sentiment that plays an important role in modern Islamic fundamentalism. He has also argued, controversially, that sharia law is not incompatible with democracy.

In addition to his written work, 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.

Positions held

• Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
• Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
• Professor of Political Science,African Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
• Chancellor, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
• Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
• Senior Scholar in Africana Studies and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
• 2008-2009 M. Thelma McAndless Distinguished scholar, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
• President, Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America, Washington D.C.

Membership of organizations (1980–1995)

• Fellow, African Academy of Sciences
• Member, Pan-African Advisory Council to UNICEF (The United Nations' Children's Fund)
• Vice-President, World Congress of Black Intellectuals
• Member, United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. (Spring)
• Member, Bank's Council of African Advisors, The World Bank (Washington, D.C.)
• Vice-President, International African Institute, London, England
• Member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Detroit Chapter, Africare

Media

• Featured in 2010 film Motherland, directed by Owen Alik Shahadah, featuring key academics from around the continent of Africa.Ali Mazrui in Motherland film
• Main African consultant and on-screen respondent, "A History Denied" in the television series on Lost Civilizations (NBC and Time-Life, 1996), U.S.A.
• "The Bondage of Boundaries: Towards Redefining Africa", in the 150th anniversary issue of The Economist (London) (September 1993), Vol. 328, No. 7828.
• Author and narrator, The Africans: A Triple Heritage, BBC and PBS television series in cooperation with Nigerian Television Authority, 1986, funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project.
• Author and broadcaster, The African Condition, BBC Reith Radio Lectures, 1979, with book of the same title (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980)
• Advisor to the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002), produced by Unity Productions Foundation.

Mazrui was a regular contributor to newspapers in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa, most notably the Daily Nation (Nairobi), The Standard (Nairobi), the Daily Monitor (Kampala), and the City Press (Johannesburg).

Awards

• 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)

Mazrui was ranked among the world's top 100 public intellectuals by readers of Prospect Magazine (UK) Foreign Policy Magazine (Washington, D.C.) (see The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll).

Death

According to press reports, Mazurui had not been feeling well for several months prior to his death.^[9] He died of natural causes at his home in Vestal in New York on Sunday, 12 October 2014.^[10][11] His body was repatriated to his hometown Mombasa and it arrived early morning on Sunday 19 October. It was taken to the family home where it was washed as per Islamic custom.^[12] The funeral prayer was held at the Mbaruk Mosque in Old Town and he was laid to rest at the family's Mazrui Graveyard opposite Fort Jesus. His burial was attended by Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala, Majority Leader Aden Bare Duale, Governor Hassan Ali Joho; and Senators Hassan Omar and Abu Chiaba^[13]

Publications

• 2008: Islam in Africa's Experience [editor: Ali Mazrui, Patrick Dikirr, Robert Ostergard Jr., Michael Toler and Paul Macharia] (New Delhi: Sterling Paperbacks).
• 2008: Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs: The Great Semitic Divergence in History [editor: Seifudein Adem], (Washington DC: University of America Press).
• 2008: The Politics of War and Culture of Violence [editor: Seifudein Adem and Abdul Bemath], (New Jersey: Africa World Press).
• 2008: Globalization and Civilization: Are they Forces in Conflict? [editor: Ali Mazrui, Patrick Dikirr, Shalahudin Kafrawi], (New York: Global Academic Publications).
• 2006: A Tale of two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa as contrasting Visions [editor: James N. Karioki] (London: Adonis & Abbey).
• 2006: Islam: Between Globalization & Counter-Terrorism [editors: Shalahudin Kafrawi, Alamin M. Mazrui and Ruzima Sebuharara] (Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press).
• 2004: The African Predicament and the American Experience: a Tale of two Edens (Westport, CT and London: Praeger).
• 2004: Almin M. Mazrui and Willy M. Mutunga (eds). Race, Gender, and Culture Conflict: Mazrui and His Critics (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press).
• 2003: Almin M. Mazrui and Willy M. Mutunga (eds). Governance and Leadership:Debating the African Condition (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press).
• 2002: Black Reparations in the era of Globalization [with Alamin Mazrui] (Binghamton: The Institute of Global Cultural Studies).
• 2002: The Titan of Tanzania: Julius K. Nyerere's Legacy (Binghamton: The Institute of Global Cultural Studies).
• 2002: Africa and other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest, The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 2 [series editor: Toyin Falola; editors: Ricardo Rene Laremont & Fouad Kalouche] (Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press)
• 2002: Africanity Redefined, The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 1 [Series Editor: Toyin Falola; Editors: Ricardo Rene Laremont & Tracia Leacock Seghatolislami] (Trenton, NJ, and Asmara,Eritrea: Africa World Press).
• 1999: Political Culture of Language: Swahili, Society and the State [with Alamin M. Mazrui] (Binghamton: The Institute of Global Cultural Studies).
• 1999: The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities [co-editors Isidore Okpewho and Carole Boyce Davies] (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
• 1998: The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience [with Alamin M. Mazrui] (Oxford and Chicago: James Currey and University of Chicago Press).
• 1995: Swahili, State and Society: The Political Economy of an African Language [with Alamin M. Mazrui] (Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers).
• 1993: Africa since 1935: VOL. VIII of UNESCO General History of Africa [editor; asst. ed. C. Wondji] (London: Heinemann and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
• 1990: Cultural Forces in World Politics (London and Portsmouth, N.H: James Currey and Heinemann).
• 1986: The Africans: A Triple Heritage (New York: Little Brown and Co., and London: BBC).
• 1986: The Africans: A Reader Senior Editor [with T.K. Levine] (New York: Praeger).
• 1984: Nationalism and New States in Africa: From about 1935 to the Present [with Michael Tidy] (Heinemann Educational Books, London).
• 1980: The African Condition: A Political Diagnosis [The Reith Lectures] (London: Heinemann Educational Books. and New York: Cambridge University Press).
• 1978: The Warrior Tradition in Modern Africa [editor] (The Hague and Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill Publishers).
• 1978: Political Values and the Educated Class in Africa (London: Heinemann Educational Books and Berkeley, CA: University of California Press).
• 1977: State of the Globe Report, 1977 (edited and co-authored for World Order Models Project)
• 1977: Africa's International Relations: The Diplomacy of Dependency and Change (London: Heinemann Educational Books and Boulder: Westview Press).
• 1976: A World Federation of Cultures: An African Perspective (New York: Free Press).
• 1975: Soldiers and Kinsmen in Uganda: The Making of a Military Ethnocracy (Beverly Hills: Sage Publication and London).
• 1975: The Political Sociology of the English Language: An African Perspective: (The Hague: Mouton Co.).
• 1973: World Culture and the Black Experience (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
• 1973: Africa in World Affairs: The Next Thirty Years [co-edited with Hasu Patel] (New York and London: The Third Press).
• 1971: The Trial of Christopher Okigbo [novel] (London: Heinemann Educational Books and New York: The Third Press).
• 1971: Cultural Engineering and Nation-Building in East Africa (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press).
• 1970: Protest and Power in Black Africa [co-edited with Robert I. Rotberg] (New York: Oxford University Press).
• 1969: Violence and Thought: Essays on Social Tentions in Africa (London and Harlow: Longman).
• 1967: Towards a Pax Africana: A Study of Ideology and Ambition (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, and University of Chicago Press).
• 1967: On Heroes and Uhuru-Worship: Essays on Independent Africa (London: Longman).
• 1967: The Anglo-African Commonwealth: Political Friction and Cultural Fusion (Oxford: Pergamon Press).

References

Further reading

• Adam, Hussein M. "Kwame Nkrumah: Leninist Czar or Leninist Garvey?" in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. xi-xvii.
• Annan, Kofi, "The Global African", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 339–340.
• Anwar, Etin, "Mazrui and Gender: On the Question of Methodology", in The Mazruiana Collection Revisited: Ali A. Mazrui debating the African condition. An annotated and select thematic bibliography 1962-2003, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Institute of South Africa and New Dawn Press Group, 2005), pp. 363–377.
• Anyaoku, Emeka, "Foreword", in The Mazruiana Collection Revisited: Ali A. Mazrui debating the African condition. An annotated and select thematic bibliography 1962-2003, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Institute of South Africa and New Dawn Press Group, 2005), pp. ix.
• Avari, Burjor, "Recollections of Ali Mazrui as an Undergraduate", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 291–296.
• Assensoh, A B. and Alex-Assensoh, Y. M. "The Mazruiana Collection Revisited: An Introduction", in The Mazruiana Collection Revisited: Ali A. Mazrui debating the African condition. An annotated and select thematic bibliography 1962-2003, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Institute of South Africa and New Dawn Press Group, 2005), pp. xxiii-xxviii.
• Ayele, Negussay. "Mazruiana on Conflict and Violence in Africa", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 105–119.
• Bakari, Mohamed. "Ali Mazrui’s Political Sociology of Language", in Robert Ostergard, Ricardo Rene Laremont and Fouad Kalouche (eds), Power, Politics, and the African Condition. Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui. Vol. 3. Trenton, NJ, and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004, pp. 411–429.
• Bemath, Abdul Samed. The Mazruiana Collection. A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui. 1st edition (1998), 2nd edition (2005).
• Bemath, Abdul Samed. "In Search of Mazruiana", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 33–62.
• Dunbar, Robert Ann. "Culture, Religion, and Women’s Fate: Africa’s Triple Heritage and Ali Mazrui’s Writings on Gender and African Women", in Robert Ostergard, Ricardo Rene Laremont and Fouad Kalouche (eds), Power, Politics, and the African Condition. Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 3. Trenton, NJ, and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004, pp. 431–452.
• Elaigwu, Isawa J. "The Mazruiana Collection: An Academic Introduction", in The Mazruiana Collection: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui, 1962-1997, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Johannesburg, South Africa: Foundation for Global Dialogue, 1998), pp 1–8.
• Falola, Toyin and Ricardo Rene Laremont. "Editors’ Note", in Ricardo Rene Laremont and Tracia Leacock Seghatolislami (eds), Africanity Redefined. Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 1. Trenton, NJ, and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004, pp. vii-viii.
• Frank, Diana. "Producing Ali Mazrui’s TV Series", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 297–307.
• Gowon, Yakubu. "Foreword", in The Mazruiana Collection: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui, 1962-1997, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Johannesburg, South Africa: Foundation for Global Dialogue, 1998), pp. vii-viii.
• Harbeson, John W. "Culture, Freedom and Power in Mazruiana", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 23–35.
• Juma, Laurence. "Mazrui's Perspectives on Conflict and Violence", in Africa Quarterly: Indian Journal of African Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 3 (August–October 2006), pp. 22–33.
• Kalouche, Fouad. "The Nexus of the Triple Heritage and the Call for Justice in the Scholarship of Ali Mazrui", in Robert Ostergard, Ricardo Rene Laremont and Fouad Kalouche (eds), Power, Politics, and the African Condition. Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 3. (Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004), pp. 453–463.
• Kokole, Omari H. "Introduction", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. xxi-xxiii.
• Kokole, Omari H. "The Master Essayist", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 3–22.
• Kokole, Omari H. "Conclusion: The Master Essayist", in The Mazruiana Collection: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui, 1962-1997, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Johannesburg, South Africa: Foundation for Global Dialogue, 1998), pp 290–311.
• Laremont, Ricardo Rene and Fouad Kalouche. "Editors' Note", in Ricardo Rene Laremont and Fouad Kalouche (eds), Africa and Other Civilizations. Conquest and Counter-Conquest. The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 2. Trenton, NJ, and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2002, pp. xi-x.
• Makinda, Samuel M. "The Triple Heritage and Global Governance", in The Mazruiana Collection Revisited: Ali A. Mazrui debating the African condition. An annotated and select thematic bibliography 1962-2003, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Institute of South Africa and New Dawn Press Group, 2005), pp 354–362.
• Mazrui, Alamin M. "The African Impact on American Higher Education: Ali Mazrui’s Contribution", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 3–22.
• Mazrui, Alamin M. "Mazruiana and Global Language: Eurocentrism and African Counter-Penetration", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 155–172.
• Mazrui, Alamin and Mutunga, Willy M., Race, Gender and Culture Conflict (Debating the African Condition: Ali Mazrui and His Critics) ( Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003).
• Morewedge, Parviz. "The Onyx Crescent: The Islamic/Africa Axis", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 121–149.
• Mowoe, Isaac J. "Ali A. Mazrui – ‘The Lawyer’", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 145-155.
• Nyang, Sulayman. "The Scholar’s Mansions", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 119–130.
• Nyang, Sulayman S. "Ali A. Mazrui: The Man and His Works", in The Mazruiana Collection: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui, 1962-1997, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Johannesburg, South Africa: Foundation for Global Dialogue, 1998), pp. 9–40.
• Nyang, Sulayman S. "Postscript to Ali A. Mazrui: The Man and His Works", in The Mazruiana Collection: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui, 1962-1997, compiled by Abdul Samed Bemath (Johannesburg, South Africa: Foundation for Global Dialogue, 1998), pp. 41–50.
• Nyang, Sulayman S. Ali A. Mazrui and His Works, Brunswick Pub. Co. 1981.
• Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. "Beyond Hearsay and Academic Journalism: The Black Woman and Ali Mazrui", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 249–258.
• Okpewho, Isidore. "Introduction", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. xiii-xv.
• Ostergard, Robert, Ricardo Rene Laremont and Fouad Kalouche. "Editors’ Note", in Robert Ostergard, Ricardo Rene Laremont and Fouad Kalouche (eds), Power, Politics, and the African Condition. Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Vol. 3. Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004, pp. xi-xiv.
• Salem, Ahmed Ali. "The Islamic Heritage of Mazruiana", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 63–99.
• Salim, Salim A. "Mazrui: The Teacher at 60", Appendix 1, in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 337–338.
• Sawere, Chaly. "The Multiple Mazrui: Scholar, Ideologue, Philosopher and Artist", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 269–289.
• Seifudein Adem. "Social Constructivism in African Political Thought: Ali A. Mazrui’s Contributions", paper presented at the 6th Seminar of the Special Project on Civil Society, State and Culture; 1 July 2005, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
• Seifudein Adem. "Ali A. Mazrui: A Postmodern Ibn Khaldun?", Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 127–145.
• Seifudein Adem. Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained: The Worldview of Ali A. Mazrui, Provo, Utah: Global Humanities Press, 2002.
• Seifudein Adem. "Mazruiana and the New International Relations", paper prepared for presentation at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, 4–6 October 2001, Melbourne, Australia.
• Sklar, Richard L. "On the Concept of We Are All Americans", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui, (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 201–205.
• Thomas, Darryl C. "From Pax Africana to Global Africa", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui, (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 77–103.
• Thuynsma, Peter N. "On The Trial of Christopher Okigbo", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 185–200.
• Ufumaka, Jr., Akeh-Ugah. "Who Is Afraid of Ali Mazrui? One Year in the Life of a Global Scholar", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 23–31.
• Uwazurike, Chudi and Aba Sackeyfio. "One Year in the Life of Ali Mazrui", in Parviz Morewedge, The Scholar Between Thought and Experience by (Binghamton, NY: Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 2001), pp. 131–144.
• Wai, Dunstan M. "Mazruiphilia, Mazruiphobia: Democracy, Governance and Development", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 37–76.
• Welch, Claude E. "Human Rights in Mazruiana", in Omari Kokole (ed.), The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998), pp. 173–184.

External links

• Ali Mazrui Official Website
• Ugandan Academics Mourn, Laud Professor Ali Mazrui’s Strides
• "An intellectual giant: Ali Mazrui (1933-2014)"
• Radio interview and transcript of Ali Mazrui by Amy Goodman 2009
• Ali Mazrui at IMDB
• "From Slave Ship to Space Ship: African between Marginalization and Globalization" by Ali A. Mazrui
• "Islamic and Western Values", 75th Anniversary Foreign Affairs September/October 1997 by Ali A. Mazrui
• "Pretender to Universalism: Western Culture in the Globalising Age" by Ali A. Mazrui, BBC, London
• "A marriage of two civilizations". Conversation with Nazif Shahrani
• "Universalism, Global Apartheid, and Justice". Conversation with Fouad Kalouche
• Annual Mazrui Newsletter no. 29 (2005)
• Horace G. Campbell, "The Humanism of Ali Mazrui", Counterpunch, Weekend edition, October 17–19, 2014.