ALI A. MAZRUI, D. PHIL. (OXON)

Ali A. Mazrui: (a) Senior Scholar in Africana Studies and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus, Cornell University; (b) Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, State University of New York at Binghamton; (c) Chancellor, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya; (d) Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large, University of Jos, Nigeria; (e) author of more than twenty books and hundreds of articles published all over the world; (f) author and narrator of television programs, especially The Africans: A Triple Heritage (BBC/PBS, 1986); (g) former President of the African Studies Association of the United States and recipient of the Association’s Award of Distinguished Africanist; (h) Founder-chair of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (Washington, D.C.); (i) recipient of Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); (j) Member of the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford, England; (k) Consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank, the Organization of African Unity, UNESCO and such broadcasting media as the British Broadcasting Corporation, the PBS, the ABC, the NBC, the Voice of America, etc.; (l) recipient of several honorary degrees.

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