A Giant Tree has Fallen: Tributes to Ali Al-Amin Mazui - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992236363 ISBN 13: 9780992236366

Publisher: African Books Collective, 2016

Synopsis

This book memorialising the life and work of Ali Al’amin Mazrui comprises more than 130 tributes written by people ranging from heads of state to journalists. Presented here are those tributes for which copyright permissions were received from among the hundreds that appeared online and print. In preparing this book, it was made very clear that, unlike other books of tributes to great men and women, there would be no segmentation of the sections based on writers’ and speakers’ positions in life. Instead, it was decided that the tributes be presented in alphabetical order based on writers’ and speakers’ last names. The decision hinged on the fact that Mazrui would not have apposed any segmentation of people by class, race, ethnicity and gender etc. Nonetheless, out of great respect for Mazrui’s immediate family members, their tributes are presented first, followed by those from his global family members. Also included at the beginning of the book are three chapters that comprise an introductory essay, a brief biography of Mazrui, and an essay on metaphorical-linguistic analysis of the tributes that follow. The book also has a preface by the co-editors and a forward by Salim Ahmed Salim, the former Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania and Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now known as the Africa Union. Dr. Salim, who served as the Secretary-General of the OAU from 1989 to 2001, was Mazrui’s friend and contemporary. Mazrui once described Salim as “Mr Africa” and the “first real postcolonial Secretary-General of the OAU.

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About the Authors

Seifudein Adem is an academic and the longest-serving Associate Director of the Insitute of Global Cultural Studies, which was founded by Ali Mazrui in 1991 at Binghamton University, New York.

Jideofor Adibe is Associate Professor of Political Science at Nasarawa State University Keffi, Nigeria.

Abdul Karim Bangura is a researcher-in-residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Centre for Global Peace at American University and Professor of Research Methodology and Public Policy at Howard University, Washington

Edition details

• Publisher: African Books Collective
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992236363
• ISBN 13: 9780992236366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Adem Seifudein, Adibe Jideofor, Bangura Abdul Karim