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.