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On Friday April 12, while travelling from the hospital to his home in New York City, Prof Aristide Zolberg, the well-known Africanist and migration scholar, died after a long battle with cancer. Zolberg is well known for his pioneering book on the politics of Ivory Coast, which was entitled One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast, published by Princeton University in 1964. Soon after that he published a study on the politics in West African states entitled Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa.
Zolberg was born in Brussels in 1931. In 1948, at the age of 16, he emigrated to the US, having survived the holocaust. It is in the US where he started a long journey towards a commitment to scholarship that landed him at the University of Chicago to study Political Science and receive his doctorate in 1961 with a dissertation on politics in the Ivory Coast. He became professor and chair of Political Science at the same university, rubbing shoulders with well-known colleagues like Kenneth Prewitt, Adam Przeworski, Phillip Schmitter, David Greenstone, Joseph Crospy, Leonard Binder and many others.
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