The F Less Travelled… with Dr Awino Okech.

Awino is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. Dr Okech also has a much longer history of gender and conflict programming work in Africa with a range of international and national organisations.

Book choices:

Pedagogy of the oppressed - Paulo Freire

Decolonising Methodologies - Linda Tuhiwai Smith

I will write what I like - Steve Biko

Music:

Any Congolese Rhumba music by Franco or Madilu System

Object:

Her late mother’s rings

Additional notes:

Awino’s article on citational politics 

Tweet Awino and follow us on twitter @f_travelled 

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Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson Achenbach

Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst

The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths.

To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with Awino here.