Awino Okech is a Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Youth-hood, gender and feminist dissent.- Chapter 3. Student movements and autocracies in Africa.- Chapter 4. Fallist feminist futures in South Africa.- Chapter 5. A revolution deferred: sexual and gender based violence in Egypt.- Chapter 6. The revolution continues: Sudanese women's activism.- Chapter 7. Women and the anglophone struggle in cameroon.- Chapter 8. Democratic reversals in Burundi.- Chapter 9. The rise and demise of the "new dispensation" in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 10. Embodying protest: feminist organising in Kenya.