Ali Mazrui

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Ali Alamin Mazrui (born February 24 1933 in Mombasa, Kenya) is a world-renowned academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies. His views are broadly similar to many other Anglophile Muslims such as India's Syed Ali Khan.

Mazrui obtained his B.A. with Distinction from Manchester University in Great Britain, his M.A. from Columbia University in New York, and his doctorate from Oxford University.

Upon completing his education at Oxford University, Mazrui joined the faculty of 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. 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 (1978-198l). 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).

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 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 addition to his academic appointments, Mazrui has 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.

Mazrui's research interests include 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.

In addition to his written work, Dr. 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. A book by the same title was jointly published by BBC Publications and Little, Brown and Company.

Publications

1980: The African condition: a political diagnosis. London & New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521232651.
1993: (ed., with Christophe Wondji as asst. ed.) Africa since 1935. London: Heinemann Educational Books; Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520039203.
1995: (with Alamin M. Mazrui) Swahili state and society: the political economy of an African language. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers; London: James Currey. ISBN 9966468234. ISBN 0852557299.
1998: (with Alamin M. Mazrui) The power of Babel: language and governance in the African experience. Oxford: J. Currey; Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226514285.

External links

[Personal website] Biography, articles and photos
[Curriculum vitae] Institute of Global Cultural Studies
[From Slave Ship to Space Ship: African between Marginalization and Globalization] by Ali A. Mazrui
[Islamic and Western Values] by Ali A. Mazrui
[Pretender to Universalism: Western Culture in the Globalising Age] by Ali A. Mazrui
[A marriage of two civilizations] Conversation with Nazif Shahrani
[Universalism, Global Apartheid, and Justice] Conversation with Fouad Kalouche

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