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Monday,Jul 26,2010
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Saturday,Jul 17,2010
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Sunday,Jul 11,2010
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Wednesday,Jun 30,2010
Jonathan, Babangida and the Sword of Damocles
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Wednesday,Jun 30,2010
Letter To “Father No Shaking” On The September 2010 Festival Of Oath-taking In Umuagwu-Aro, Osuh-Owerre, Isi-ala Mbano Local Government Area (LGA), Imo State
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Wednesday,Jun 23,2010
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Thursday,Jun 17,2010
The Return of Mallam Ribadu
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Thursday,Jun 17,2010
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Thursday,Jun 10,2010
Should Suspects Be Paraded?
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Thursday,Jun 10,2010
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Makerere University And I: The Debt Between
By:
Professor Ali A Mazrui
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Acceptance Speech delivered at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, as part of the official ceremonies, to launch the Project of Ali A. Mazrui Distinguished Chair and Centre of Global Studies, Makerere, August 11, 2009. Also present at the ceremonies was the Prime Minister of Uganda, the Right Honourable Apolo Nsibambi.
Professor Mazrui is:
First African Professor of Political Science,
First African Dean of Social sciences, and
First Dean of Law, at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in the 1960s.
He is currently:
Chancellor, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT),
Nairobi, Kenya, 2003 –2009, and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies,
State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
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Rt Hon. Prime Minister,
Ministers,
Chancellors,
Chair of Council,
Members of Parliament,
Acting Vice Chancellor,
Former Vice Chancellors,
Deans and Heads of Departments,
Other Professors,
Very valued Students,
Leaders of Private Sector Forum,
Distinguished guests,
All protocol observed.
Because my academic career was launched and nurtured in Uganda, and Uganda is the source of the Nile, I regard my professional life as a child of the Nile. But in what sense was Makerere crucial to my career? What is unique and special about my relationship with Makerere?
It all began with a convergence of stars at the time I was appointed lecturer by Makerere. 1963 was the year when I became thirty years old, when the country of my birth (Kenya) became independent, when my first child (Jamal) was born at Mulago hospital, and when I first published in the most advanced scholarly Journals of my profession.
In 1963 I became a member of Makerere, I became a parent, I became a citizen of an independent country, and I published in high-ranking journals in the world academy. 1964 was the year of initiation into Makerere’s academic culture, and the beginning of my assimilation into Uganda’s political culture.
The sequence was extra-ordinary I was appointed full professor and then given leave to finish my doctoral thesis abroad. The whole concept was imaginative but controversial. Professor Y.K. Lule presided over the process as the new Head of Makerere.
1966 I successfully defended my doctoral thesis at Oxford and earned my D.Phil. (Oxon).
I returned to Makerere to become the first African dean of either Arts or Social Sciences.
In 1967 I became a book-author with a bang. In that single year I published 3 books by different publishers in two continents across the Atlantic. In 1967 my second son (Al’Amin) was born at Mulago hospital. My third son (Kim) was born at Mulago the following year.
What did I owe Makerere?
In the succeeding years from 1967 to 1973 when I resigned, my output at Makerere was approximately the equivalent of one book and several articles every year.
What did I owe Makerere?
As a professor at Makerere I made an impact on the wider world of scholarship. In those years I rose to become Vice President of the International Political Science Association, Vice President of the International Congress of Africanists, and Vice President of the African Society in Britain.
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