This book explores gender, peace and security in Africa from multiple angles, including the conceptual and implementation challenges and shifts around women, peace and security in Africa over the last 15 years; women's role as combatants in national liberation forces in South Africa; the dynamics of gender in the military through the lens of Kenyan women combatants; food security through a feminist lens; and a series of case studies on the nexus between gender and security in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Somalia. Previously published as a special issue of the 'African Security Review'. Table of Contents: 1. Women, peace and security in Africa Conceptual and implementation challenges and shifts / Cheryl Hendricks; 2. The convergence and divergence of three pillars of influence in gender and security / 'Funmi Olonisakin, Cheryl Hendricks and Awino Okech; 3. Women combatants and the liberation movements in South Africa: Guerrilla girls, combative mothers and the in-betweeners / Siphokazi Magadla; 4. Feminine masculinities in the military: The case of female combatants in the Kenya Defence Forces' operation in Somalia / Mokua Ombati; 5. Gender, feminism and food studies: A critical review / Desiree Lewis; 6. A case study of gender and security sector reform in Zimbabwe / Netsai Mushonga; 7. Women police in the Nigerian security sector / Tosin Akinjobi-Babatunde; 8. Madagascar: Paving the way to national 'fampihavanana' and lasting peace / Gaby Razafindrakoto; 9. Sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Yolanda Sadie; 10. Kenya and Somalia: Fragile constitutional gains for women and the threat of patriarchy / Hawa Noor Mohammed.