Issue 1 (1997)
Highlights: Livelihoods and Security in African, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Judicial Responses to Genocide, Conflict over Natural Resources
Issue 2 (1997)
Special Issue: Tanzania
Highlights: Ward Tribunals in Babati District of Tanzania, Urban Poor in Tanzania, Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania, African History
Issue 3 – Crisis in the Great Lakes – (1997)
Highlights: The Great Lakes Region: Uganda, Western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo; Patterns of State Collapse and Reconstruction; Laurent Kabila; Rwandan Genocide; Sovereignty in the Congo
Issue 4 – Religion and Philosophy in Africa – (1998)
Highlights: Religion and Philosophy, Critical Scholarship, Colonial Legacies, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda