The internationally renowned Kenyan academic and scholar Professor Ali Mazrui passed away on Monday morning in Binghamton, New York in the United States.
According to media reports, Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) chairperson Mr Khelef Khalifa who confirmed the death said the body of the late Prof Mazrui will be flown to Kenya for burial.
“He had wished to be buried in Mombasa’s historical Fort Jesus area. Plans are underway to fly the body here,” Khalifa was quoted saying by the Standard newspaper.
The scholar was born on 24 February 1933 in the coastal town of Mombasa. He was a political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations.
He was Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.
He once served as the first non-president chancellor of Jomo KenyattanUniversity of Agriculture Technology (JKUAT) under President Mwai Kibaki’s regime.
Mazrui was widely consulted by heads of state and governments, international media and research institutions for political strategies and alternative thoughts.
He first rose to prominence as a critic of some of the accepted orthodoxies of African intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. He was critical of African socialism and all strains of Marxism.
Source: APA
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