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This Festschrift is in honor of a distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist, Professor Sulayman Nyang, whose career and intellectual pursuits spans more than 45 years - much of it at Howard University. Nyang's contributions to African affairs, transcends the scope of the academic world as he has served as First Secretary and Head of Chancery of the Gambian Embassy in Saudi Arabia 1975-1977, and consultant to the World Bank and United Nations agencies. In addition, Professor Nyang served as the President of Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, DC, and member of board of many academic journals, and organizations of Islam and African affairs. He has published copiously on a variety of issues affecting continental Africans, Africans in the Diaspora, and beyond. And has written and or collaborated on dozens of books and book chapters and more than 100 articles.

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This Festschrift, in honor of one of Africa's lustrous and respected scholars, is the epitome of the academic pursuits of Professor Sulayman S. Nyang. Professor Nyang is considered an astute diplomat, a scholar, a peacebuilder, and a humanist who invariably urge African leaders to be serious and sincere about the state of human rights, peace, and development in their countries. -- Getachew Metaferia, Professor of Political Science, Morgan State University Baltimore, Maryland This book, at once a celebration of and a testimonial to Professor Nyang's contributions to scholarship, examines more than four decades of his rigorous intellectual exertions on four subjects, namely, Africa and its people; Islam and Islamic philosophy; Inter-faith dialogue; and issues of justice and the wellbeing of humanity. The assembled scholars interrogated, dissected and provided further elucidation of the four cardinal subjects that have formed the major pillars of Professor Nyang's scholarship. This book comes highly recommended. -- W. Alade Fawole, Professor of International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. This book in honor of Sulayman Nyang, a renown Africanist, is a compendium of the cream of scholarship by distinguished academics. It sheds essential intellectual light on the critical issues of the African condition. The chapters cover a wide range of issues like governance, religion, terrorism and political integration. While most of the past intellectual reflections on these issues have employed externally derived paradigms, the present volume is an objective critical explanation from within. This book will be highly rewarding to read. -- John A.A Ayoade, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

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Olayiwola Abegunrin is Professor of International Relations, Political Economy, and African Studies, University of Maryland and Howard University. Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is an Associate Professor of Political Science, and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama.

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