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Kenyan academic (1933–2014)

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was a Kenyan-born American academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies, and North-South relations.

Professor Mazrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural.

Associate Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Enduring Legacy of Ali Mazrui: Commemorating an Intellectual Griot.

He is currently the Director of the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg.

In his book, The Africans, African scholar and historian Professor Ali Mazrui, examining Africa's crises, attributed most of Africa's woes to Western.

Ali Mazrui.

He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. His positions included Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan.^[1][2] He produced the 1980s television documentary series The Africans: A Triple Heritage.

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. His father was also a scholar and author, and one of his books has been translated into English by Hamza Yusuf as The Content of Character (2004), to which Ali supplied a foreword.

The Mazrui family was a hist