Prominent Kenyan academic, Ali Mazrui, is dead.
BBC reports that the scholar died in the United States after a prolonged illness.
He was 81.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Africa had been robbed of one of its greatest scholars.
The late Mazrui had been a “towering academic whose intellectual contributions played a major role in shaping African scholarship,” he added.
He was a professor at Binghamton University in New York at the time of his death.
The Chairman of Kenya’s Muslims for Human Rights group, Khelef Khalifa, said his body will be flown to Kenya for burial.
The deceased is survived by his wife and six children.
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May his soul rest in peace Amin.
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