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Critical Perspectives on Culture and Globalisation : The Intellectual Legacy of Ali Mazrui
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...
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Oxford, KENYA :
Twaweza Communications, Limited,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.