Portfolio

academic:

Kilimo, Miriam Jerotich. 2022. “‘You Can’t Do Politics Without Money’: Female Politicians, Matronage, and the Limits of Gender Quotas in Kenya.” Africa 92 (2): 210-229
Kilimo, Miriam Jerotich. 2022. “Redefining the Female Body: The Legislative Process against Female Circumcision in Kenya.” In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye, 75-100. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Kilimo, Miriam. 2016. “The Black Woman’s Natural Hair.” In Mystiques: a feminist homage to Roland Barthes, edited by Kerrie Thornhill, 12-19. Oxford: The Feminist E-Press, International Gender Studies
Brown, Eleanor, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Miriam Jerotich and Victoria Le May. 2016. “Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: are young men allies in social change programmes?” Reproductive Health Matters 24 (47): 118 – 125
Kilimo, Miriam. 2014. “Western Discourse in Legal Approaches: A History of Female Circumcision in Kenya.” In The 36th annual conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Conference Proceedings, Perth, Australia, November 27th-29th, 2013
Kilimo, Miriam. 2013. Jandoni: Coming of Age in Urban Kenya. Senior fellowship project.

nonfiction:

Beyond the Nobel Peace Prize (Africa Is a Country, November 2020)
My mother’s refusal to undergo FGM has given me licence to dream (The Guardian, February 2015)
Losing My Childhood (shikungigi.com, January 2015)
Waiting for the Kingdom (40 Towns, June 2013)
The Real Tragedy in Being African (Saraba Magazine #13 Africa, March 2013)
Mothers Shall Guide the Youth (African Youth Journals, February 2012)

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