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The gathering, which marked Mazrui’s 70th birthday, came during a two-day symposium titled “Africa’s Triple Heritage Revisited: A Symposium in Honor of the Scholarship and Life’s Work of Ali A. Mazrui” to celebrate Mazrui’s work and political thought. Hosted by the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS), the symposium featured a series of panel discussions to reappraise Mazrui’s conception of Africa as a product of a triple heritage, encompassing indigenous, Islamic and western civilizations. The symposium drew guests from countries around the world, including Japan, Turkey, Kenya and South Africa. Special guests included former Nigerian President Yakubu Gowon, Kenyan Ambassador to the United States Yusuf A. Nzibo and Olara Otunu, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Children and Armed Conflict. Mazrui has been the Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and director of BU’s global cultural studies institute since 1989. In addition to his scholarly work, he teaches and lectures widely and holds concurrent appointments as the Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos, Nigeria; Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University; and Ibn Khaldun Professor-at-Large in the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, Va. He has served as president of the African Studies Association (USA), vice president of the International Political Science Association, special advisor to the World Bank and as a member of theboard of the American Muslim Council. Mazrui is the author or co-author of more than 20 scholarly works and the creator of the joint PBS/BBC series The Africans: A Triple Heritage, which was published as a book of the same name. |
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