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Pan-Africanist Scholar Ali Mazrui on the Election of Barack Obama as the First Black President in the Western World

Pan-Africanist Scholar Ali Mazrui on the Election of Barack Obama as the First Black President in the Western World

Ali Mazrui has been an intellectual giant in African studies for the past four decades. In 2005, Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines named him among the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. Mazrui has met Nelson Mandela, Ghana’s founding president Kwame Nkrumah; he had tea with the Indian prime minister; he met with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in his tent; he’s met with the Queen of England; and was forced out of Uganda under Idi Amin. Today, a conversation with Pan-Africanist professor Ali Mazrui. [includes rush transcript]

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