Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest is the second volume of the Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui that will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings. This second volume considers the interaction of Africa with other civilizations from historical, sociological, philosophical and political perspectives, with a special emphasis on the inextricability of conquest and counter-conquest. The essays reproduced herein provide a refreshing approach to such seminal themes as “culture,” “civilization,” “universalism,” and “modernization” as they address the complex interactions between Africa and other civilizations throughout history?including economic, political, religious, ideological and artistic interactions. Mazrui’s essays are very timely and will contribute to our understanding of current world events: particularly relevant are his reflections on the place of Africa and the “Third World” after the Cold War and in relation to an emerging international order he describes as “Global Apartheid.”

ABOUT THE EDITORS

TOYIN FALOLA is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the editor of The Journal of African Economic History and the series editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.

Falola is the author of Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production on Knowledge in Africa and the editor of Tradition and Change in Africa: The Essays of J.F. Ade, Ajayi, both published by Africa World Press in 2000.

RICARDO RENE LAREMONT is Chair of the Sociology Department and Associate Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Africana Studies at SUNY- Binghamton, Laremont’s work focuses on the comparative politics of Africa, Latin America, and Europe. He is the author of Islam and the Politics of Resistance in Algeria, 1783-1992, and the editor of The Causes of War and the Consequences of Peacekeeping in Africa.

FOUAD KALOUCHE is a Research Associate at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at SUNY-Binghamton where he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Cultural Program. His areas of specialization include Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Culture, and Nietzsche. Kalouche’s dissertation was entitled Ethics of Destruction: The Path towards Multiplicity (2001).

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