A CHAT FROM LONDON: The little that I knew of Professor Ali Mazrui

A good day becomes evident in the morning...so the Swahili proverb goes. It was ice cold but the sun was shining.

>May I share a few clips from last week? First the video.  A mass of frenzied people are chasing a man somewhere in West Africa.   Right on the knees of Ebola.  Someone sent it via WhatsApp.  Don’t frown if you don’t use WhatsApp.

>Wednesday, October 15, 2014...A tiny delegation of well educated women; modest and intelligent, will be welcomed into one of the most powerful rooms in the northern hemisphere. First is Mrs Rhobi Samwelly (pictured), mother of four children, hailing from Butiama, Mara Region.

It is a cold wet winter afternoon, a few days after the Paris and Bamako terrorist attacks. As I stroll down a major street in East London, a man is melodically hollering:“Evening Standard! Evening Standard!”

Octoba 14 mwaka jana Uwakilishi wa Kudumu wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania katika Umoja wa Mataifa uliandaa hafla ya kwanza ya aina yake ya kumkumbuka na kumuenzi Baba wa Taifa Mwalimu Julius kambarage Nyerere. Hafla hiyo ilihudhuriwa na Wanadiplomasia wanaoziwakilisha nchi zao hapa Umoja wa Mataifa na wageni mbalimbali. Ni hafla iliyoambatana na uzinduzi wa kitabu kinachomhusu Baba wa Taifa, Kitabu hicho kiliandikwa kwa ufundi mkubwa na Profesa Ali Mazrui kwa kushirikiana...

Renowned Kenyan academic Ali Mazrui dies in the United States aged 81 after being ill for several months.

What made Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui great?

Ali Al Amin Mazrui died early this week at the age of 81 in New York, where he had been teaching since he went into self-exile in 1973.