Messay Kebede is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton in Ohio. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble in France. He previously taught philosophy at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). He is the author of several books, including Meaning and Development (Rodopi, 1994) and Survival and Modernization (Red Sea, 1999). He has also published numerous articles. The most recent include: “The Rehabilitation of Violence and the Violence of Rehabilitation: Fanon and Colonialism” (Journal of Black Studies, 2001), “Directing Ethnicity toward Modernity” (Social Theory and Practice, 2001), and “Generational Imbalance and Disruptive Change” (International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2003).