# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-mazrui
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:21:15.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-mazrui"
name: "Ali Mazrui"
slug: "ali-mazrui"
description: "Ali Al'amin Mazrui, was a Kenyan-born American academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies, and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. His positions included Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He produced the 1980s television documentary series The Africans: A Triple Heritage."
tagline: "Kenyan academic (1933–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MazruiAlihs6283.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-02-24"
deathDate: "2014-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.77460317460318
  historical:           14.12775866666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3039811"
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    title: "Ali Mazrui"
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    title: "Ali Mazrui"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump