In this volume, Ali A. Mazrui’s triangulated model is discussed, contested, redefined and challenged by some of the powerful and leading voices in African scholarship. The voices contained in Growing up in a Shrinking World touch on diverse topics just as they are from scholars from diverse background, making the book authoritative as well as a thoroughly grounded interdisciplinary examination of Mazrui’s legacy.

“Ali A. Mazrui was a champion of justice and good governance. He believed that good governance is impossible without giving people voice. It is only when multiplicity of voices compete that knowledge is generated. Growing up in a Shrinking World powerfully guides us to examine Mazrui’s numerous suggestions of expanding spaces for those voices to thrive.”
--Dr. Willy Mutunga, D. Jur, SC. EGH, Former Chief Justice/President, Supreme Court of Kenya

“We leave it to political scientists to assess Ali A. Mazrui’s legacy. But for me, taking his intellectual output as a whole, he more than lived up to the description of the global African. He made Kenya and Africa visible in the highest echelons of intellectual production. To see him on the platform quoting from poets and philosophers alike in support of his arguments was to witness a master intellectual performer. He dined and wined and argued with kings, presidents, and generals but he never lost his common touch, attentive to the voice of the student with the same respect that he gave to the mighty. As this volume of essays edited by Dr. Ndirangu Wachanga demonstrates, Ali A. Mazrui belonged to generations; they saw themselves in him. He shone: he dazzled; he enlightened. Some of that bliss can be found in his numerous publications that keep his spirit alive for generations to come.”
--Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University of California, Irvine

ABOUT THE EDITOR
NDIRANGU WACHANGA is Associate Professor of media studies and information science, University of Wisconsin. He is the authorized documentary biographer of Prof. Ali A. Mazrui, Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and Prof. Micere Mugo. His documentary, Ali Mazrui: A Walking Triple Heritage, won the 2015 New York African Studies Book Award.

CATEGORY
Politics, Sociology, History/AFRICA

PUBLICATION YEAR
2017

PAGE COUNT
340 Pages