Articles: - The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas Paul Tiyambe Zeleza - Social sciences internationally: The problem of marginalization and its consequences for the discipline of sociology W. Keim - Xenophobia and the place of the refugee in the rainbow nation of human rights Ashwin Desai - Prendre en compte les echelles: Le movement patriotique et la construction de ‘I’ autochtone’ en Cote d’Ivoire Karel Arnaut Address - Sociology, Hypocrisy, and Social Order Layi Erinosho Research Reports - Family planning dialogue: Identity the key determinants of young women’s use and selection of contraception in Namibia Nelago Indongo and Kammila Naidoo - Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants Michaela Pelican, Peter Tatah and Basile Ndjio - Adjustments Patterns of and Obstacles against Social Rehabilitation of Sex Workers in Nigeria R. A. Aborisade and A. A. Aderinto - ‘I want to be a star’ : Doping technology and the incidence of performance-enhancing Drugs among actors in Nigeria Charles Emeka Nwadigwe - Measuring Ethnic Identification and Attachment in sub-Saharan Africa Yoku Shaw-Taylor Debate - Can the ‘African household’ be presented meaningfully in large-scale surveys? Marlize Rabe Book Reviews - Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Miltin, eds., Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives Reviewed by Kirk D Helliker - Dapo Adelugba and Philip Ogo Ujomu, eds., Rethinking, Security in Nigeria: Conceptual Issues in the Quest for Social Order and National Integration Reviewed by Wilson Akpan - Issac Mazonde and Pradip Thomas, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives from Southern Africa Reviewed by Rosabelle Boswell - Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst, eds., Ways of walking: Ethnography and practice on foot Reviewed by Detlev Krige