CURRICULUM VITA (Comprehensive) APRIL 2006 NAME Ali Al'Amin Mazrui NATIONALITY Kenyan (Born in Mombasa, Kenya, Feb. 24, 1933) CHILDREN Five sons: Jamal (born 14 December, 1963) Al'Amin (born 12 March, 1967) Kim (born 21 November, 1968) Farid (born 14 January, 1992) Harith (born 28 August, 1993) DEGREES B.A. with Distinction; University of Manchester; England, 1960. M.A.; Columbia University; New York, New York, U.S.A., 1961. Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.); Oxford University; England, 1966. PRESENT UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A. Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A. Professor of Political Science and of Africana Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, U.S.A. Chancellor, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria Senior Scholar in Africana Studies and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. Curriculum Vita of Dr. Ali A. Mazrui Page 1 of 66 GENERAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1996-2001 Ibn Khaldun Professor-at-Large, School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, Virginia, U.S.A 1997-1998 Walter Rodney Professor of History and Governance University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana 1989-Present Fellow, African Academy of Sciences 1988-Present Member, Pan-African Advisory Council to UNICEF (The United Nations' Childrens Fund) 1988-Present Member, Bank's Council of African Advisers, World Bank, Washington, D.C. 1988-Present Vice-President, World Congress of Black Intellectuals 1988 Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. (Spring) 1987-Present Member, United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations 1987-Present Vice-President, International African Institute, London 1987-Present Member, Advisory Committee, Trans-Africa Run for Wildlife Foundation, Inc. 1987-Present Member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Detroit Chapter, AFRICARE 1987-Present Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of OSSREA (Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa) 1981-1986 Research Professor of Political Science, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria 1986-Present Member, College of Fellows of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies 1986-Present Editor, Volume 8, UNESCO General History of Africa 1985 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accra 1985-1990 Re-elected Vice-President, International Congress of African Studies Curriculum Vita of Dr. Ali A. Mazrui Page 2 of 66 1981-1986 Author, narrator and presenter of TV series for British Broadcasting Corporation and the Public Broadcasting System (W.E.T.A.), Washington, D.C. 1979 Reith Lecturer of British Broadcasting Corporation, London 1978-1985 Vice-President, International Congress of African Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1978-1982 Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, Ann Arbor 1978-1981 Director, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1978-1979 President, African Studies Association of the United States 1975-1980 Member of the Executive Board, African Studies Association of the U.S.A. 1973-1976 Member of the Executive Committee, African Association of Political Science 1974-1991 Professor of Political Science and of Afro-American and African Studies, The University of Michigan 1973-1974 Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California 1972-1973 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California 1970-1973 Vice-President, International Political Science Association 1969-1983 Director, African Section, World Order Models Project 1968-1987 Member of the Governing Board (Executive Council), International African Institute, London 1967-1973 Member of the Executive Committee, International Political Science Association 1967-1973 Vice President, International Congress of Africanists 1968-1987 Member of the Governing Board (Executive Council), International African Institute, London Curriculum Vita of Dr. Ali A. Mazrui Page 3 of 66 1967-1969 Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 1965-1973 Professor of Political Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 1965-1978 Visiting Professor at the Universities of London, Chicago, Oxford, Denver, Manchester, Leeds, Harvard, Nairobi, California (Los Angeles), Northwestern, Singapore, Ohio State, Colgate, Australia, Stanford, Cairo, Sussex, Leeds, etc., etc. 1965-1966 Research Associate, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 1963-1965 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 1963-Present Member of Editorial Boards of about a dozen journals in Africa, U.K. and U.S.A. BOOKS 2006 A TALE OF TWO AFRICAS: NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA AS CONTRASTING VISIONS [Editor: James N. Karioki] (London: Adonis & Abbey) 2006 ISLAM: BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION & COUNTER-TERRORISM [Editors: Shalahudin Kafrawi, Alamin M. Mazrui and Ruzima Sebuharara] (Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press) 2004 THE AFRICAN PREDICAMENT AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A TALE OF TWO EDENS (Westport, CT and London: Praeger) 2002 BLACK REPARATIONS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION [with Alamin Mazrui (Binghamton: The Institute of Global Cultural Studies) 2002 THE TITAN OF TANZANIA: JULIUS K. NYERERE’S LEGACY (Binghamton: The Institute of Global Cultural Studies) 2002 AFRICA AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS: CONQUEST AND COUNTER- CONQUEST, The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui , Vol. 2 [Series Editor: Toyin Falola; Editors: Ricardo Rene Laremont & Fuad Kalouche] ( Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press) Curriculum Vita of Dr. Ali A. Mazrui Page 4 of 66 2002 AFRICANITY REDEFINED, The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui , Vol. 1 [Series Editor: Toyin Falola; Editors: Ricardo Rene Laremont & Tracia Leacock Seghatolislami] ( Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press) 1999 POLITICAL CULTURE OF LANGUAGE: SWAHILI, SOCIETY AND THE STATE [with Alamin M. Mazrui] (Binghamton: The Institute of Global Cultural Studies) 1999 THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: AFRICAN ORIGINS AND NEW WORLD IDENTITIES [Co-editors Isidore Okpewho and Carole Boyce Davies] (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). 1998 THE POWER OF BABEL: LANGUAGE AND GOVERNANCE IN THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE [with Alamin M. Mazrui] (Oxford and Chicago: James Currey and University of Chicago Press). 1995 SWAHILI, STATE AND SOCIETY: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE [with Alamin M. Mazrui] (Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers). 1993 AFRICA SINCE 1935: VOL. VIII OF UNESCO GENERAL HISTORY OF AFRICA [Editor, Asst. Ed. C. Wondji] (London: Heinemann and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). 1990 CULTURAL FORCES IN WORLD POLITICS (London and Portsmouth, N.H: James Currey and Heinemann). 1986 THE AFRICANS: A TRIPLE HERITAGE (New York: Little Brown and Co., and London: BBC). 1986 THE AFRICANS: A READER Senior Editor [with T.K. Levine] (New York: Praeger). 1984 NATIONALISM AND NEW STATES IN AFRICA: FROM ABOUT 1935 TO THE PRESENT [with Michael Tidy] (Heinemann Educational Books, London). 1980 THE AFRICAN CONDITION: A POLITICAL DIAGNOSIS [The Reith Lectures] (London, Heinemann Educational Books and New York, Cambridge University Press). Curriculum Vita of Dr. Ali A. Mazrui Page 5 of 66 1978 THE WARRIOR TRADITION IN MODERN AFRICA [Editor] (The Hague and Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill). 1978 POLITICAL VALUES AND THE EDUCATED CLASS IN AFRICA (London: Heinemann Educational Books and Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). 1977 STATE OF THE GLOBE REPORT , 1977 (Edited and co-authored for World Order Models Project) [ ALTERNATIVES Vol. III No. 2, December 1977]. 1977 AFRICA'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE DIPLOMACY OF DEPENDENCY AND CHANGE (London: Heinemann Educational Books and Boulder: Westview Press). 1976 A WORLD FEDERATION OF CULTURES: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE (New York: Free Press). 1975 SOLDIERS AND KINSMEN IN UGANDA: THE MAKING OF A MILITARY ETHNOCRACY (Beverly Hills: Sage Publication and London). 1975 THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE (The Hague: Mouton Co.). 1973 WORLD CULTURE AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE (Seattle: The University of Washington Press). 1973 AFRICA IN WORLD AFFAIRS: THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS [Co-edited with Hasu Patel] (New York and London: The Third Press). 1971 THE TRIAL OF CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO [Novel] (London: Heinemann Educational Books and New York: The Third Press). 1971 CULTURAL ENGINEERING AND NATION-BUILDING IN EAST AFRICA (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press). 1970 PROTEST AND POWER IN BLACK AFRICA [Co-edited with Robert I. Rotberg] (New York: Oxford University Press). 1969 VIOLENCE AND THOUGHT: ESSAYS ON SOCIAL TENSIONS IN AFRICA (London and Harlow: Longman). Curriculum Vita of Dr. Ali A. Mazrui Page 6 of 66 1967 TOWARDS A PAX AFRICANA: A STUDY OF IDEOLOGY AND AMBITION (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, and Chicago: University of Chicago Press). 1967 ON HEROES AND UHURU-WORSHIP: ESSAYS ON INDEPENDENT AFRICA (London: Longman). 1967 THE ANGLO-AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH: POLITICAL FRICTION AND CULTURAL FUSION (Oxford: Pergamon Press). MONOGRAPHS, PAMPHLETS AND BOOKLETS 2004 Nkrumah’s Legacy and Africa’s Triple Heritage between Globalization and Counter Terrorism (Ghana University