| LC control no. | n 93017448 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mazrui, Alamin, 1948- |
| Variant(s) | Mazrui, Alamin M., 1948- |
| Birth date | 1948-03-10 |
| Affiliation | Ohio State University |
| Profession or occupation | Author Poet College teacher |
| Special note | Not the same as: Mazrui, Ali Al-min (n 50078536) his uncle. |
| Found in | The Swahili, c1993: t.p. (Alamin M. Mazrui) Kayas revisited, 1998: acknowledgements (Alamin Mazrui) Swahili beyond the boundaries, c2007: ecip t.p. (Alamin Mazrui) data view (b. 3/10/48) Ohio University Press & Swallow Press, Aug. 26, 2013 (Alamin Mazrui is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the Ohio State University and visiting professor in the department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. He is the coauthor of Swahili, State and Society: The Political Economy of an African Language, The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience, and The Swahili: Idiom and Identity) Poetry Translation Centre, viewed Aug. 26, 2013 (Alamin Mazrui was born in 1948 in Lamu, an island off the Kenyan coast, into the famous Mazrui family. Instead of the religious careers of his father and grandfather, Mazrui chose to follow the example of his uncle, professor Ali Mazrui, and pursued an academic career. Alamin Mazrui received his primary and secondary education in Kenya and his university degrees in the USA, obtaining a Bachelor's of Science degree and Master's of Art degree at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, and a PhD in Linguistics in 1980 at Stanford University. Mazrui was professor in the Department of African American Studies at the Ohio State University 1989-2004, and currently teaches in the department of African Languages and Literatures at Rutgers) <http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/alamin_mazrui_> |
| Associated language | eng |
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