This welcome and timely ground-breaking text centers holistic (utu), human and humane critical thought and life flows beyond historical impasses. By offering powerful epistemological departures, the chapters open a gateway to much-needed reconceptualizing of the inter-related and intersectional presents and futures, and provide fresh approaches to living, thought, and scholarship. They move knowledge and methodologies forward in exciting, new, and refreshing ways.

Wangui wa Goro, University of London

This is a study whose ontological focus on the identities of gender and sexualities from multidisciplinary perspectives is uniquely edifying and the profundity of whose epistemological implications is humanely refreshing. This volume is a worthwhile addition to the emerging literature on the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and location and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.

Shadrack Nasong'o, Rhodes College

This important volume captures the complexity and diversity of gendered practices in Kenya, covering such topics as aging and youth, motherhood and feminist biographies, and same-sex desire in traditional and modern Africa. As richly layered as the subject they discuss, these chapters are philosophically deep, rigorously written, and carefully selected. They will serve as excellent models for the interdisciplinary study of gender in Africa. Highly recommended.

Evan M. Mwangi, Northwestern University