Ali A. Mazrui is a distinguished political scientist a leading historian and a multimedia public intellectual. He has written dozens of books and narrated documentaries on British and American television. In Eastern Africa he grew up among Arabs and in England and the United States he was partly educated by Jews. Foreign Policy magazine has described Mazrui as one of the top 100 public intellectuals alive in the world today. Ali Mazrui is currently Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University New York; Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University New York; and Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Nairobi Kenya. Seifudein Adem was educated in Ethiopia and Japan and has taught in universities in Africa Japan and the United States. He is an expert on comparative politics and comparative cultural studies. His other books include Hegemony and Discourse and Paradigm Lost Paradigm Regained. He has also written about the great Arab historian and inventor of modern sociology Ibn Khaldun. Dr. Adem is currently Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies Binghamton University Binghamton New York. . Language: English