Edwin Etieyibo, PhD (2009), University of Alberta, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. His most recent works include Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy and African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective.

Obvious Katsaura, PhD (2013), University of the Witwatersrand, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are at the intersections of the fields of transnational urbanism, transnational religiosity, religious urbanism, urban politics and urban violence.

Muchaparara Musemwa, PhD (2003), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is an Associate Professor of History and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of Water, History and Politics in Zimbabwe: Bulawayo's Struggles with the Environment, 1894-2008 (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014).

This book features essays that untangle, express and discuss issues in and around the intersections of politics, social justice, intolerance, terrorism, minorities, poverty, and education, and as they relate to the two concepts of radicalisms and conservatisms in Africa.