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IGCS NEWSLETTERS

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Volume 9, Issue 1 Fall 2011

Volume 8, Issue 1 Fall 2010 — Special Edition

Volume 7, Issue 1 Spring 2008

Volume 6, Issue 1 Fall 2006

Volume 5, Issue 1 Winter 2004–2005

Volume 4, Issue 1 Winter 2003

Volume 3, Issues 1–2 Winter 2001–02

Volume 2, Issue 1 Winter 2000

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Volume 1, Issue 1 Fall 1998 — Online edition

Printer-friendly unillustrated version: Vol. I, Issue 1 Fall 1998

MAZRUI ANNUAL NEWSLETTERS

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Newsletter 29.pdf

Special Edition Newsletter.pdf

Newsletter 27.pdf

SELECT MAZRUI LECTURES

Between Heroic Universalism and Parochial Martyrdom-The Life and Death of Christopher Okigbo

The Black Experience between Global War and Universal Peace-From Enslavement to Enlistment

What's In A Name?: European Imperialism and the Re-Naming of Africa

“Things Fall Apart”: The Fiction and The Facts, The Poetry and The Prose . These remarks were originally written as part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s classical novel, Things Fall Apart (1958). Part of the celebration was held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC in 2006.

Highlights Without Precedent: When Ali A. Mazrui Led the Way . Prepared for Special Purposes for the Ali A. Mazrui Makerere Foundation Kampala, Uganda and for The International Institute of Islamic Thought Herndon, Virginia, USA

Uswahili International: Between Language and Cultural Synthesis . Delivered at Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya on July 19, 2005, as part of the launch of the Swahili Resource Centre, Coastal Branch, Kenya. The event was also a commemoration of the works of Sheikh Al-Amin Aly Mazrui, the late Chief Kadhi of Kenya.

Language and the Rule of Law.

The Kenya Coast — Rise, Decline and Revival. A summary of a lecture given at Pwani University College, Kilifi, Kenya, and at the Mombasa University College (former M.I.O.M.E.) in Mombasa, Kenya, July 2011.

The Muse of Modernity and the Quest for Development. Originally written as an Introductory Essay for the book project provisionally entitled The Heart and the Mind in African Development: Culture and Development, edited by Philip G. Altbach and Salah Hassan (1996). The editors subsequently adopted the title of Mazrui’s chapter for the title of their whole book. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997).

Paradoxes of the Human Condition and of Comparative Experience. Extracted from the works of Ali A.Mazrui from 1971 to 2011. This document has been prepared for the International Institute of Islamic Thought, USA, June 2011.

Using 50 Years of Independence to Judge 100 Years of Colonial Rule — 2nd Draft 2011. An earlier version of this paper was published in The Guardian (London, UK), December 2010.

Africa Between the Baobab Tree & the Owl of Minerva: A Post-Colonial Educational Narrative. Presented at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Educational Society (CIES) on the theme “Education is That Which Liberates: Fifty Years of Education for the Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forward,” hosted by McGill Faculty of Education, Montreal, Canada, April 30 to May 4, 2011.

Inter-Faith Dialogue: Between Piety and Partition. Presentation at the 2nd Annual Muslim Christian Interfaith Celebration of the birth of Jesus, son of Mary, sponsored the United Muslim-Christian Forum, held at the Days Inn, Binghamton, NY, January 8, 2011. The Referendum about the Independence of the Southern Sudan was scheduled for the next day, January 9, 2011.

An African Half-Century. Dr. Ali A. Mazrui’s article published in The Guardian newspaper on 7th December 2010.

Civilization and the Quest for Creative Synthesis: Between a Global Dr. Jekyll and a Global Mr. Hyde. Keynote address to the conference on “Civilization and Values,” sponsored by the Institute for the Alliance of Civilizations and the Chamber of Commerce of Istanbul held in Istanbul, Turkey, December 18, 2010.

The Floral Gap: Where are the Flowers in African Culture? This summary is a work in progress. The short essay is indebated to Ali A. Mazrui’s Oxford Amnesty Lecture “Strangers in Our Midst: In Search of Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” delivered at Oxford University, England, February 27, 2004, co-sponsored by Oxford Astor Lectureships.

Between the Pre-Democratic Ummah and the Post-Democratic United States of America. Lecture presented on a panel organised by the American Muslim Alliance at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) held in Chicago, IL, July 3, 2010.

Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs: Towards the Europeanization of the Jews and the Africanization of the Arabs. Lecture delivered at Columbia University, New York, on May 6, 2010.

Can Globalization be Contained? Towards Afro-Asian Strategies. Keynote address under a different title at the International Conference on “Engaging with Resurgent Africa,” sponsored by the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India, November 20–21, 2008.

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