




Stephen has for three decades been both a champion of Africa and of the view that the Western world must take seriously the intellectual and scholarly traditions, methodologies of thought and political expressions of the world now emerging to resist and challenge the West.
Stephen has led an international cosmopolitan life. The firstborn son of Chinese refugees to New Zealand, he was a national student president, publisher, newspaper editor, and international civil servant before he became an academic, firstly in Africa, and later in Britain.

Can the Commonwealth reinvent itself for the 21st Century? Or should it retire gracefully from the world stage?

