Nici Nelson published many scholarly articles and books including: •
Dependence and Independence: Female Household Heads in Mathare Valley, A Squatter Community in Nairobi, Kenya. Dissertation
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1978. •
Why has development neglected rural women? : a review of the South Asian literature, Oxford; New York : Pergamon Press, 1979. •
African women in the development process, Nici Nelson, ed., London, England; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass, 1981. • A Discourse of Anger in a Situation of Gender-Power Asymmetry: The Negotiation of Safer Sexual Practices Between Young Women and Men in Nairobi. In: Stephanie Newell, ed.,
Images of African Women: The Gender Problematic. University of Stirling: Center for Commonwealth Studies, 1995. ISBN 978-1857690323. • with Susan Wright,
Power and participatory development : theory and practice, London : ITDG Pub., 1995. ISBN 978-1853392412. • Representations of Men and Women, City and Town in Kenyan Novels of the 1970s and 1980s'.
African Languages and Cultures, 9(2), pp. 145–165, 1996. ISSN 0954-416X. • with Sue Jones,
Urban poverty in Africa : from understanding to alleviation, London : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1999. • Genderizing Nairobi's Urban Space. In: F. Grignon and H. Maupeu, eds., ''L'Afrique Orientale, Annuaire 2000''. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 269–323, 2000. • with Sue Jones,
Practitioners and poverty alleviation : influencing urban policy from the ground up, London : ITDG, 2005. ==References==