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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to ask my colleagues to follow me in paying tribute to the late Prof. Ali Al Amin Mazrui. Hon. Speaker, Kenya has lost one of its native sons, the most influential, most cherished and one of the most well-known scholars. Prof. Ali Mazrui died on 13th October, 2014 in the United States of America. He was a very popular professor of history. He was a political scientist and critical proponent of North-South relations. He was a documentary film maker, a teacher, an orator, a journalist, among many others. The late professor’s brilliance raised him to the apex of scholarly distinction and earned him respect amongst his peers. On the outset, I want to thank the national Government, and more particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for making sure that Prof. Mazrui’s will was achieved. They paid all the expenses pertaining to the bringing of the body of our brother scholar back home. I also want to thank the Mombasa County Government for playing a very significant role. Prof. Mazrui was a man who was held in high esteem because he had set the bar for academicians not only in Africa and Kenya, but in the whole world. Ali Mazrui got his primary and secondary education in Mombasa at the then Arab School. He proceeded for his Bachelor’s Degree in the University of Manchester in 1960, his Master’s Degree in Columbia University in 1961 and got his Doctorate Degree in 1966. Mazrui left Kenya after graduating from Oxford and went to Uganda, where he taught at the Makerere University. He has been remembered by those who were at the Makerere University, including former President Mwai Kibaki, when he was the Chair of the Political Science Department as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In 1973, Mazrui moved to the United States where he spent the rest of his life, where he was involved in academic work. In 1974, a year after he relocated to the US, he joined the University of Michigan where he was elected the Director of the Centre for Afro-American and African Studies. He served in that capacity from 1978 to 1981. Until his death at the age of 81, Prof. Mazrui was the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies. He was also a Professor in Humanities and Political Science, African Studies, Philosophy and Interpretation of Culture at the State University of New York. Prof. Mazrui was one of Kenya’s most outstanding intellectual and academician. He will be remembered for his path-breaking analysis and synthesis of history, economics and governance to fine-grain coherence between the Kenyan and the ultimate African experience. He had presented its analysis with persuasive eloquence at all public forums. The impressive body of publication and the lectures he gave is a catalogue for inquiry into which more schools to come in the world will use for many years. His spirit will always inspire Kenyan and African scholars for many years to come. His death was a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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