2025 - Call for Abstracts/Papers: Pathways to African Feminism & Development
Theme
Sub-Themes
- Women, Legal and Policy Frameworks
- Customary and Religious Practices
- Intersectionality and Land Rights
- Women’s Voices, Agency, and Collective Bargaining
- Women and Land Governance Institutions
- Land, Livelihoods, and Climate Change
- Innovations and Good Practices in Land Governance
While the journal accepts papers based on secondary data, preference is given to those based on primary data and strong qualitative research.
Justification
Despite Kenya’s progressive constitution and legal frameworks, significant gender disparities persist in access to, ownership of, and control over land. Women, who form the majority of Kenya’s agricultural workforce, own only 3% of titled land, continue to face cultural and legal barriers to inheritance, and remain underrepresented in land governance structures and institutions at all levels. This call aims to amplify research and practical solutions that tackle systemic inequalities, thereby advancing gender-responsive land governance.
Instructions for Authors | Submission Guidelines
Ø Abstracts should be 250–400 words, clearly outlining objectives, methodology, key findings (if applicable), and relevance to the main theme.
Ø Full papers (for selected abstracts) should be 4,000–7,000 words.
Upon review and acceptance of the abstract, authors will be asked to submit an article not exceeding 7000 words. Please include:
Ø The sub-theme you are responding to.
Ø Name of the author(s), institution of affiliation, email address, current telephone number, and ORCID ID. Collaboration among multiple authors is acceptable with the consent of and significant contribution from all co-authors to the work.
Submissions are made in two stages, starting with the abstract upon review and acceptance, the authors will then be invited to submit a full paper as outlined below.
Ø Call for Abstracts: August 8, 2025
Ø Abstract Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025
Ø Notification of Acceptance: September 5, 2025
Ø Full Paper Submission Deadline (upon invitation): October 3, 2025
Ø Publication (upon Review Process completion): December 2025
All Abstracts: To be submitted through the official email address pathwaysawsc@uonbi.ac.ke, addressed to the Editor-in-Chief with the subject line “Women and Land Rights”.
All Articles: Upon successful abstract submission and acceptance. The author(s) will be invited to electronically submit a full paper through the Pathways to African Feminism & Development OJS Platform - https://uonjournals.uonbi.ac.ke/ojs/index.php/aws/about/submissions.
This journal issue is a product of a collaborative project between the African Women Studies Centre and the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, with sponsorship from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Therefore, authors will not be required to pay the article processing fee (APF) for this specific journal issue.
All submitted articles will be subjected to double-blind review and plagiarism check once accepted for publication. Authors will be expected to incorporate comments before publication of the articles.
Disclaimer
For more information and/or clarification, please write to the Editor-in-Chief awsckenya@uonbi.ac.ke with a copy to the Technical Editors apmwangi@uonbi.ac.ke; minneh@uonbi.ac.ke.
