Ali A. Mazrui is one of the most prolific and most controversial African writers. He has addressed a wide spectrum of issues and ideas, and his publications reveal the fertility of his mind, his imaginative powers, and his immense capacity for intellectual work. His writings in political science can be grouped in the following broad categories: comparative politics; international relations; political theory and philosophy; sociology; and socilinguistics and literary studies. To Mazrui's critics his high productivity is a defect rather than an asset. How can one shift from an analysis called "The Poetics of a Transplanted Heart" (an article Mazrui wrote in 1968 for Transition, based in Kampala) to an investigation of "Miniskirts and Political Puritanism" (Africa Report, October 1968)? Is Mazrui's writing speed and range intellectually dangerous? The burden of proof rests with those who would claim the writing slowly results in greater profundity and depth. Those scholars (African...