Critical Perspectives on Culture and Globalisation: The Intellectual Legacy of Ali Mazrui

by Kimani Njogu (Editor), Seifudein Adem (Editor)

Overview

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 treated with uncommon flair a wide-range of themes that included globalization, the triple heritage, peace, and social justice. This volume engages with some of the themes that excited his attention 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789966028679
Publisher:	Twaweza Communications
Publication date:	08/10/2017
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Kimani Njogu, an Associate Professor of Kiswahili and African Languages, is a Director of Twaweza Communications and Africa Health and Development International (AHADI). He is a translator of significant works into Kiswahili and has been involved in developing socially committed entertainment programs globally. He has provided training on culturally sensitive and issue based entertainment programming in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, India, China, St. Lucia, Grenada, Madagascar, Peru, Pakistan, Palau, Nigeria, Laos, Mexico and Peru, among other countries. Kimani is also a writer, literary critic and columnist and his Kiswahili book Ufundishaji wa Fasihi: Nadharia na Mbinu on the teaching of literature won the 2000 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

Seifudein Adem is a former Research Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, New York, where he also served as a full-time faculty member from 2006 to 2016.

Table of Contents

1. Culture and Globalization: A Contextual Essay

2. Transnational Africa(s): Ali Mazrui and Culture, Diaspora and Religion

3. Ali Mazrui: Transformative Education and Reparative Justice

4. Ali Mazrui and The Trial of Christopher Okigbo

5. Rethinking the Idea of Afrabia in Ali Mazrui’s Political and Social Thought

6. Ali Mazrui and Verbal Combats

7. Ali Mazrui’s Islamic Studies: Defending Oppressed Muslims, Reforming Islamic Thought

8. Who is an African? Reflections onAli Mazrui’s notion of the African

9. Ali A. Mazrui and Turkish Interests

10. Eclecticism as a Theoretical Approach: The pillar of Ali A. Mazrui’s Intellectual Legacy

11. Mazrui and the Whig Interpretation of African Nationalism

12. Ali A. Mazrui: An Anecdotal Essay

13. Was Mazrui Ahead of His Time?

14. Appendix: Triple Tropes of Triads