Publications
An overview of my publications
Journal Articles
(2024). Gender Contestations and the Implications for Inclusive Societies. African Journal for Sustainable Development (14), 1, pp 47-59
(2024) Feminist Protest Action in Kenya: Lessons and Directions, Politics and Gender (20), 2, pp 485-489
(2022) Queer Movements and Disciplinary Laws in Africa.
(2021) Introduction: feminist protests and politics in a world in crisis,
(2021). Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria, 2021. Africa Development, 46 (3) 1 -19
(2021) 'Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund'. Economia Politica.
(2021) 'Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa'. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, (46) 4, pp 1013-1033.
(2021) 'COVID-19 responses and human rights in selected African countries'. Australian Journal of Human Rights, (26) 3, pp 549-555.
(2020) 'African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality'. Critical African Studies, (12) 3, pp 313-329.
(2019) 'Building Transnational Feminist Alliances: reflections on the post 2015 development agenda'. Contexto Internacional, (41) 2, pp 255-272.
(2019) 'Gender and state-building conversations: the discursive production of gender identity in Kenya and Rwanda'. Journal Conflict, Security & Development, (21) 4, pp 501-515.
(2018) 'Boundary anxieties and infrastructures of violence: Somali identity in post-Westgate Kenya'. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, (3) 2, pp 293-309.
(2015) 'The convergence and divergence of three pillars of influence in gender and security'. African Security Review, (24) 4, pp 376-389.
(2015) 'Asymmetrical conflict and human security: Reflections from Kenya'. Strategic Review for Southern Africa, (37) 1, pp 53-74.
(2013) 'Gendered security: Between ethno-nationalism and constitution making in Kenya'. Africa Peace and Conflict Journal, (6) 1, pp 29-42.
Media and Opinion Pieces
Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, 2025
Okech, Awino (2025) UN Femicide rates in Africa triple global average. DW News
Okech, Awino (2025), Kenyans take to the streets […] - The World
Okech, Awino (2025). Confronting a surge in femicides in Kenya - France 24
Okech, Awino (2025). Femicide in Kenya: William Ruto has set up a task force – feminist scholar explains its flaws. The Conversation
Okech, Awino (2024). Kenya’s People Power Protest – ABC Radio National
Okech, Awino (2024). Kenya’s protests are different this time: 3 things that make it harder for government to crush them
Okech, Awino (2024). Kenya’s femicide cases need national action: declare a crisis now – scholar
Okech, Awino (2023). Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law is a patriarchal backlash against progress.
Okech, Awino (2022). Would Kenyan women’s rights be safe under William Ruto? Why they might not be.
Okech, Awino (2022). We need a feminist economic alternative to Sunak and Hunt’s plans.
Okech, Awino and Marianne Mesfin Asfaw. 2021. Working Paper: Shrinking Civic Space and Women and Girls in Africa.
Olonisakin, 'Funmi and Okech, Awino (2020) Twenty Years of UNSC Resolution 1325 call for a Frank Forward Look.
Okech, Awino (2020) Why #EndSARS Matters in an Era of Increasing Militarisation and Repression.
Okech, Awino (2020) Humour in a Time of Coronavirus.
Book Chapters
Okech, Awino (2023). The Feminist Classroom in a Neoliberal University in Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. & Hawkins, L. (eds.) Difficult Conversations: A Feminist Dialogue. London: Routledge.
Okech, Awino (2021). Rite of Being: Gender and Bodily Autonomy in Manenberg in Alex Halligey and Sara Matchett (eds). Collaborative Conversations: Celebrating Twenty-One Years of The Mothertongue Project. Cape Town. Modjaji Books
Matchett, Sara and Okech, Awino (2015) 'Uhambo: pieces of a dream - Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality'. In: Reinelt, Janelle and Singleton, Brian, (eds.), Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp 110-124.
Okech, Awino (2013) ''In sisterhood and solidarity': queering African feminist spaces'. In: Ekine, Sokari and Abbas, Hakima, (eds.), Queer African Reader. Dakar: Pambazuka Press.
