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1 online resource (270) |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Foreword. A Tribute to an Intellectual Griot; Culture and Globalization: A Contextual Essay; The Arena of technology; The social Arena; The educational Arena; Revitalizing Kiswahili and African languages; Conclusion; References; Transnational Africa(s): Ali Mazrui and Culture, Diaspora and Religion; The 'New' Africa: 'hopeless' then 'hopeful' even 'rising' 1965-2015; Mazrui, Africa and alternative development directions & debates post-2015; Varieties of innovative sources of finance |
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Varieties of 'New' transnational regionalismsVarieties of 'Transnational' governance; Insights from the Aga Khan Foundation; Onto varieties of innovative analyses/policies?; Endnotes; References; Ali Mazrui: Transformative Education and Reparative Justice; Introduction; Growing up in the shadows of colonial education; What is Education?; Transformative Education; Building on the foundations of the African knowledge systems; Importance of language and transformative education; Cognition and the new educational terrain in Africa; The humanization of Mazrui in the Reparations Movement |
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Face to face with racism in the USAMazrui as a reparations activist; The World Conference against racism in Durban 2001; Fault lines in the Reparations debate; Mazrui enriched by feminism; Mazrui's gift to Kenya and Africa; Ali Mazrui: Transformative Education and Reparations; Endnotes; Ali Mazrui and The Trial of Christopher Okigbo; Introduction; Mazrui's literary criticism and creative writing; Ali A Mazrui and The Trial of Christopher Okigbo; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Rethinking the Idea of Afrabia in Ali Mazrui's Political and Social Thought; Introduction |
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Afrabia: Beginning and developmentAfrabia as a unifying cultural framework; Challenges to Afrabia in a changing world; What went wrong?; Afro-Arab and crossing into the future; Conclusion: What can be done then?; Endnotes; References; Ali Mazrui and Verbal Combats; Introduction; Mazrui and his intellectual predecessors, Augustine and Khaldun; Family background; The rebooted man; Stirring intellectual trouble at Makerere; Mazrui Redesigned, turning on the imperialists; Conclusion: Back to Fort Jesus, Mombasa; Endnotes |
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Ali Mazrui's Islamic Studies: Defending Oppressed Muslims, Reforming Islamic ThoughtIntroduction: Ali Mazrui Whom You May Not Know; Understanding Muslim-Western tensions; Liberating Islam from social traditions; Conclusion; References; Who is an African? Reflections on Ali Mazrui's notion of the African; Introduction; My interest in Mazrui's notion of who is an African; Mazrui's notion of Africa; Africa: A geographic fiction?; Mazrui's delineation of the African; Was Mazrui an African?; Critique of Mazrui's delineation of the Africans; Conclusion; References |
| Summary |
In 1996 President Nelson Mandela described Professor Ali A. Mazrui (1933-2014) as "an outstanding educationist and freedom fighter." In 2002 the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan referred to Professor Mazrui as "Africa's gift to the world." Author of more than 35 books and hundreds of articles, Professor Mazrui was an African scholar who had treated with uncommon verve and flair a wide-range of themes that included globalization, the triple heritage, peace, and social justice. This volume engages with some of those themes that excited his mind for over six decades. The multidisciplinary essays seek to underline the highlights of Mazrui's intellectual journey and attest to the fact that he was public intellectual par excellence. Indeed, in 2005, he was named one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. This book is a product of a symposium held from 15 to 17 July 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The symposium was jointly organized by the Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, Kenya, and the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (State University of New York at Binghamton) which Ali Mazrui created and presided over as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities from 1991 to 2014 |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
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Print version record |
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Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin fast |
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African history.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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Intellectual life
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Africa -- Intellectual life
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Africa
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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9966028730 |
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9789966028730 |
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