TRANSITION is a journal of international studies edited by Wole Soyinka, Kwame Appiah, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and published by Oxford University Press. Essays and articles, including work by bell hooks; Isaac Julian; Julius Lester; Timothy Weiskel on forest preservation; Ali A. Mazrui on Albert Schweitzer; Jean Said Makdisi on Lebanon; Femi Ojo-Ade on being an African writer; more.