TEODROS KIROS is Master Lecturer in Philosophy at Suffolk University and Associate-in-Residence in the Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of "Toward the Construction of a Theory of Political Action: Antonio Gramsci" (1985), "Moral Philosophy and Development: The Human Condition in Africa" (1992), and numerous journal articles. He is an editor of "New Political Science" and co-editor of "The Promise of Multiculturalism" (1998).