At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Ali A Mazrui once described his entire professional life as 'one long debate'. In the last half-century he has publicly debated such Heads of State as Robert Mugabe, Milton Obote of Uganda and Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania. this book reproduces some of those debates word-for-word. The topics of contestation have included 'Defining Black Orientalism' and 'the Causes and Consequences of Terrorism'. Mazrui is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century.

At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Ali A Mazrui once described his entire professional life as 'one long debate'. In the last half-century he has publicly debated such Heads of State as Robert Mugabe, Milton Obote of Uganda and Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania. this book reproduces some of those debates word-for-word. The topics of contestation have included 'Defining Black Orientalism' and 'the Causes and Consequences of Terrorism'. Mazrui is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century.

At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Ali A Mazrui once described his entire professional life as 'one long debate'. In the last half-century he has publicly debated such Heads of State as Robert Mugabe, Milton Obote of Uganda and Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania. this book reproduces some of those debates word-for-word. The topics of contestation have included 'Defining Black Orientalism' and 'the Causes and Consequences of Terrorism'. Mazrui is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century.