Shaping Africa' Future: Transforming Africa and Global Relations for a Just and Stable World, a multidisciplinary study edited by John W. Forje is not only timely but lay the groundwork for the ongoing epistemological debate on these issues. The national and global structurally driven poverty, inequality, conflict and violence, among other issues that continue to engulf Africa require such studies to unravel their nature and solutions thereof. Africa is known to be plagues by some economic and political and centrifugal and centripetal forces that continue to hamper meaningful broadly based development. (Prof. Korwa A. Adar, Nairobi- Kenya).