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Geopolitics

Beyond the Margins: How Ali Mazrui’s Vision from the Global South Foreshadowed a Multipolar World

The Kenyan-born academic Ali Mazrui's eclectic, historically-grounded, and ethically-engaged scholarship, often dismissed by the positivist mainstream, was in fact decades ahead of its time, anticipating major theoretical debates and global political shifts including the rise of China and the end of apartheid. It is a tragic, infuriating indictment of Western intellectual hegemony that such a visionary scholar from the Global South was marginalized for daring to see the world through a lens not constrained by their methodological dogma and imperialist frameworks.