The Ali A. Mazrui papers document Mazrui's academic work and public response to his ideas.

The collection contains monographs by or about Mazrui, documents related to his debate with Walter Rodney in 1970, office indexes, annual reports, a short resume, articles authored by Mazrui, a short biography, correspondence, and book publishing timelines. It also contains annual newsletters created by Mazrui, lecture and event recordings, and newspaper clippings about or authored by him. Within the correspondence authored and recieved by Mazrui's assistant, Ravenna Narizzano-Bronson, are records of academic critique that Mazrui recieved on Facebook.