Monique’s
Library
This is a living library; here you’ll find selected publications of essays, op-eds, prose, poetry, and research.
Hopefully, I’ll be adding to it regularly. In addition, you’ll also find an archive of interviews I have done elsewhere, features done on me, of guest features where I have otherwise express public thought.
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. (2011)
Afritude’ In To See the Mountain and Other Stories. New Internationalist, UK
Kwachou, M. (2011)
‘Lifesavers’ In Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon. Bakwa Books
Kwachou, M. (2019)
The Bride’s Gift’. In It Wasn’t Exactly Love. Farafina Trust Publishing, Nigeria
Kwachou, M. (2015)
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 An Unpublished.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.
Essays/Op-Eds/Reviews
A response to Tchiroma: On the devaluation of humanities. University World News
Kwachou, M. (2025)
Are You Safe? Please Stay Safe. Africa is a Country.
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)
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