Mohamed Saliou Camara is a professor of History, Philosophy, and Mass Communication and the current chair of the Department of African Studies at Howard University, Washington, DC. He received an MA and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in History on a Fulbright Scholarship. He also holds a DES in Philosophy from the Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry (Guinea), and an Advanced Professional Degree in Journalism from the University of Dakar (current Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal). Camara taught at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida where he also served as Director of the McNair Scholars Program, Speaker of the Faculty Senate, and Associate Vice President for Academics. Camara is the author of seven books, numerous peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters on African studies with a focus on political history; media, politics, and society; religion and philosophy; civil-military relations; human security; and intra-African foreign relations. His books include His Master’s Voice: Mass Communication and Single-Party Politics in Guinea under Sékou Touré (2005), Le pouvoir politique en Guinée sous Sékou Touré (2007), The Development of a Trans-National Region in West Africa (2010), Historical Dictionary of Guinea (5th Edition) (2013), Political History of Guinea since World War Two (2014), Is There a Distinctively African Way of Knowing: Knowing and Theory of Knowledge in the African Experience (2014), and Health and Human Security in the Mano River Union: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea (2020).