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)
Summoning the Rains. Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers
Kwachou, M. (2017)
‘The Bride’s Gift’. In It Wasn’t Exactly Love. Farafina Trust Publishing, Nigeria
Kwachou, M. (2015)
‘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)
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 An Unpublished.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.
Academic Papers
Dune Part Two
Dune Part Two
The Godfather Trilogy
The Revenant
The Hateful Eight
Dune Part Two
My Playlist
Muntula Moto
Richard Bona
Hot Space
Queen
Mr Blue Sky
Electric Light Orchestra
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
Dune Part Two
Richard Bona
Dune Part Two
Richard Bona
My Reading List
Can We All Be Feminist
We All Should Be Feminist
A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteeen Suggesstions
The Fault in Our Staars
The Hateful Eight
Dune Part Two
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