On Ali Mazrui

Professor Ali Mazrui will be the recipient of the Global South Caucus' inaugural Distinguished Scholar award, which will be presented at ISA's 2012 Convention in San Diego, CA. Prof. Mazrui has had a distinguished record of scholarship and community service. I imagine that there are many, who like me, first encountered Dr. Mazrui's work through this groundbreaking PBS series, The Africans. I watched each weekly episode on PBS and happily put my (then leading digital medium) VCR to work and recorded them all. Well, they are in a box in my garage but...