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Fare thee well Ali Mazrui, a true Kenyan and a good human being

Prof. Ali alamin mazrui  cutting he cake during the Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture and technology 12th graduation ceremony.

Nairobi; Kenya: I first met the famed Professor Ali Mazrui at the University of California Santa Cruz back in 1976.

He had come there at the invitation of Professor John Marcum, the provost of Merrill College, a college of the university that specialised in so-called Third World Studies. (In those days, the term “Third World” included the domestic  “Third World”—America’s ethnic minorities.) 

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