Africa is only beginning to assess its administrative performance by employing the New Public Management tool, called Monitoring and Evaluation. Monitoring appears to be more widely practised on this Continent than actual evaluation to assess the merit, worth and value of administration, output and outcome of government interventions. This article makes a case for the wider use of well-tested evaluation strategies. Without proper evaluation there is no way of determining whether intended programmes are being implemented effectively or whether side effects have become more dominant. The African Peer Review Mechanism arose out of NEPAD and is a good start, but it does not evaluate the performance of individual government departments and their programmes adequately. Peer review broadly assesses the election process; the absence of corruption; and how well political leaders and their governments are performing in their overall economic,