Born in Kenya, and with a D.Phil. (1966) from Oxford University, Dr. Mazrui is Albert Schweitzer Chair of Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton. A writer of both fiction and non-fiction, Dr. Mazrui has lectured in more than twenty countries since 1964 and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace Fellowship, Stanford University, 1973-74, and the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the united States, 1960-61. His most recent works are Cultural Forces in World Politics (1990) and The Power of Babel, a work on the triple heritage (specifically linguistic) of Africans.