This issue on women's mobilisations offers a forum for the critical exploration of contemporary mobilisations of African women. With reflections on women's movements that radically challenge existing gender relations, inequalities and injustices and with the following articles: 'Terms of Engagement: South African challenges' by Shireen Hassim : 'She-murenga: Challenges, Opportunities and Setbacks of the Women's Movement in Zimbabwe' by Shereen Essof : and 'Regional Networking as Transnational Feminism: African Experiences' by Aili Mari Tripp.