At the conference, Prof. Abdul Bangura loudly confessed to Prof. Ali A Mazrui that "Mwalimu Mazrui, we have admired you, plagiarised you and continue to hold you with great esteem as the greatest scholar from the African soil residing in America today."
Nilikuwa mjini Bagamoyo kwenye kazi za Kamati ya Bomani nikiwa na Harrison Mwakyembe na Ezekiel Maige. Spika wa Bunge akanipigia simu, akaniambia “ Babu, kesho kuna uchaguzi wa Kamati za Bunge. “Nimekuteua Kamati ya POAC ambayo ni kamati mpya itakayokuwa chini ya Kambi ya Upinzani.