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Rest in peace Prof Ali Mazrui
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29595175<snip>
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said Africa had been robbed of one of its greatest scholars.
Mr Mazrui had been "towering" academic whose "intellectual contributions played a major role in shaping African scholarship", he added.
He had been a professor at Binghamton University in New York at the time of his death.
Leading pan-Africanist
His body will be flown to Kenya for burial, said Khelef Khalifa, chairman of Kenya's Muslims for Human Rights group.
"His nephew, Alamin Mazrui, has confirmed that the professor's wish was to be buried in Kenya," he is quoted by the local Daily Nation newspaper as saying.
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I'll never forget your PBS series The Africans
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