The Africans: A Triple Heritage, which was jointly produced by the BBC and the Public Broadcasting Service (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), and funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project. A book by the same title was jointly published by BBC Publications and Little, Brown and Company.

This is my memorial tribute to the great Professor Ali Mazrui, one of the greatest African scholars of all time and among those leading the vanguard of the revival of the African Renaissance.

I have been following the intellectual life of Ali Mazrui since my first knowledge of him as the author of The Trial of Christopher Okigbo published in 1972. The allegory is a Kafkaesque narrative of the trial of Okigbo for abandoning his art to become one of the heroic sacrificial lambs of Biafra, the ill fated Igbo republic led by Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu ( November 4, 1933 – November 26, 2011) from May 30, 1967 to January 15, 1970 and caused the death of over 30,000 Nigerian soldiers and over 25,000 Biafran soldiers with over 1, 000, 000 million civilian casualties of largely children who were starved to death.

[size=14pt]"Despite the seriousness of the questions there is something detached and playful about the novel. The story never gets bogged down in its arguments. It becomes its own best proof that important political questioning and art are not mutually exclusive. The Trial of Christopher Okigbo is a fine and unusual piece of fiction."
~ George Davis, The New York Times Book Review, 17/9/1972.[/size]

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A must read tribute is "The trial of Professor Ali Mazrui in After Africa" by Egara Kabaji who puts Ali Mazrui on trial and finds him guilty of minor offences of commission and omission as a creative writer. Read the verdict of African literary ancestors.
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