Africa: Trying Days Ahead, is a tentative title for a book to be co-authored with Dr. Cirino Hiteng Ofuho of United States International University, Department of International Relations, Nairobi, Kenya. The book deals with some of the major and acute problems in Africa such as AIDS, debts crisis, democratization, Narcotics, conflict resolution, Deforestation and urbanization; regional and international relations of Africa with Russia, US, France and the Arab and Islamic world etc.. It is to go to press in the summer of 2003.