Mazrui Is Laid To Rest

Renowned scholar Professor Ali Al’amin Mazrui has been laid to rest at the 900-year-old Mazrui family cemetery in old town Mombasa, fulfilling part of his will to be buried there with his ancestors. Hundreds of mourners including local leaders and international peers attended the final send-off of the globally acclaimed lecturer. President Uhuru Kenyatta eulogised Professor Mazrui as a towering academic while chief justice dr. Willy Mutunga who was in attendance and considers the late professor as a confidant gave a stinging rebuke of the different regimes under which the scholar lived and died. Alex Kubasu attended the elaborate funeral service and now reports from old town Mombasa.