Monique’s
Library

I began publishing at the age of 21 and have since developed skills in poetry, reflective essay writing and short fiction and creative nonfiction.





This is a living library; here you’ll find my writing and research. Hopefully, I’ll be adding to it regularly.

Creative Writing (Prose and Poetry)

And Then She Asked... O Jewa Ke Eng?: A Poetry Collection by Monique Kwachou

Kwachou, M. (2025)

Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon

Kwachou, M. (2019)

Summoning the Rains. Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers

Kwachou, M. (2017)

‘Change of Reaction’ In Love Stories from Africa, Brittle Paper.

Kwachou, M. (2017)

‘ID’ (2014) Ofi Press Poetry e-zine

Kwachou, M. (2017)

‘The Bride’s Gift’. In It Wasn’t Exactly Love. Farafina Trust Publishing, Nigeria

Kwachou, M. (2015)

‘The Hawker’. In The Nameless Foundation Magazine, South Africa

Kwachou, M. (2013)

 ‘Where there are No Shrinks’. In Asante: In-flight Magazine- Air Uganda

Kwachou, M. (2013)

 ‘P is for Pastor’- Flash Fiction. In Asante: In-flight Magazine- Air Uganda

Kwachou, M. (2013)

‘Afritude’ In To See the Mountain and Other Stories. New Internationalist, UK

Kwachou, M. (2013)

‘The Sun Has Looked Upon Me’. Kalahari Review, Botswana

Kwachou, M. (2013)

‘Post Battle Cries’. Femicatio Publishing

Kwachou, M. (2025)

Writing Therapy: A Collection of Poems. Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

Kwachou, M. (2025)

Creative Non-fiction (Essays/Op-Eds)

A response to Tchiroma: On the devaluation of humanities. University World News

Kwachou, M. (2025)

A response to Tchiroma: On the devaluation of humanities. University World News

Kwachou, M. (2019)

When The Revolution Is No Longer Revolutionary... This is Africa

Kwachou, M. (2017)

 Life in no Internet Cameroon. This is Africa.

Kwachou, M. (2017)

Choosing to Identify as Me. This is Africa.

Kwachou, M. (2017)

Academic Papers

Kwachou, M. (2025). Pathways for pragmatic decolonisation in research. Open Research Europe, 5, 112.

Kwachou, M., Russell, I., & Adom-Opare, F. (2025). Where one ends, the other begins: An African-feminist interrogation of the discourses and realities of Social Change and Reproduction through education. International Journal of Educational Development, 117, 103337.

Kwachou, M. (2022). In response to Acker: black and African feminist theories on gender and education. Comparative Education, 1-24.

Kwachou, M. (2022). How a Cameroonian university is unintentionally producing African feminists, and why it must be more intentional. Critical African Studies.

Kwachou, M. (2022). When the Light is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya.In Feminist Africa. Ghana

Kwachou, M. (2022). Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon in Feminist Africa. Ghana

Kwachou, M. (2020). Cameroonian Women's Empowerment Through Higher Education. Education: An African-Feminist and Capability Approach. An Unpublished. Doctoral Thesis- University of the Free State, South Africa

Kwachou, M. (2016). When your teachers fail you: The necessity of improving teachers training for quality education in Cameroon. Young African Leaders Journal of Development, 1(1), 21.

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