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Ali Mazrui

Conversations with African Poets and Writers, The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress

TITLE: Ali Mazrui

SPEAKER: Ali Mazrui
EVENT DATE: 10/07/2011
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)

DESCRIPTION:

Ali Mazrui discussed the state of contemporary African culture and post-independence literary production.

Speaker Biography: Ali Mazrui is an academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He is an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.