Contents: To Our Readers / Lennart Wohlgemuth -- Commentaries: Contradictions in Constructions of African Masculinity / Kopano Ratele -- Silencing the Guns in Sierra Leone / Jimmy D. Kandeh -- South African Higher Education: Over-Coming Problems, Meeting Challenges / Saleem Badat -- Debate: The New Partnership for Africa’s Development - Some Critical Observations / Henning Melber -- The Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the African Regional System of Human Rights / Alpha Fall -- Development Research Evaluation: Can it be a good evaluation? / Henrik Secher Marcussen -- Interview: Interview with Mary E. Modupe Kolawole / Signe Arnfred -- Research: Contexts of Gender in Africa: Critical Investigations / Signe Arnfred -- Gender Research on Urbanisation, Planning, Housing and Everyday Life, GRUPHEL / Ann Schlyter -- A Research Project is Born / Birgit Brock-Utne -- The Struggle is Over. Report from a research project -- Institution: The Global Coalition for Africa: Promoting Effective Partnership / Ahmedou Ould Abdallah -- Publishing -- Other activities: Conferences and Meetings -- Tribute: Bernard Helander in Memoriam / Lennart Wohlgemuth -- Bade Onimode in Memoriam / Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja -- Review essay: Strong Regimes, Weak States / Endre Stiansen