  Non-Abelian monopoles are present in the fully quantum mechanical low-energy
effective action of many solvable supersymmetric theories. They behave
perfectly as pointlike particles carrying non-Abelian dual magnetic charges.
They play a crucial role in confinement and in dynamical symmetry breaking in
these theories. There is a natural identification of these excitations within
the semiclassical approach, which involves the flavor symmetry in an essential
manner. We review, in an introductory fashion, the recent development which has
led to a better understanding of the nature of non-Abelian monopoles and of
their role in confinement and dynamical symmetry breaking in strongly
interacting theories.
