Contents: To Our Readers / Lennart Wohlgemuth -- Commentaries: Sharia in Nigeria: Some issues arising / Adetoun Ilumoka -- Children of the storm / Bawa Yamba -- Morocco today: Dynamics of political change / Abouhani Abdelghani -- Research: State-building in post-liberation Eritrea: Prospects, Potentialities and Challenges / Redie Bereketeab -- Religious history and gender relations in Northern Tanzania / Päivi Hasu -- AIDS orphans and their relatives: patterns of care / Catrine Christiansen -- Review: Literature on truth and reconciliation in South Africa / Henning Melber -- Institutions: AEGIS: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies -- Publishing: Recent publications -- Conference reports: Conferences and meetings -- Scholarships: Awarded scholarships -- Poem: 'The Search' by Kwesi Brew