Quality Vs. Quantity - Global and Local Responses Towards Increasing Women’s Political Participation: Nigeria’s 2015 Elections
This paper was presented at the Women Advocates' Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) & Voices for Change (V4C) THEMATIC DIALOGUE ON NIGERIA'S 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION Chesterfield Hotel, Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Professor of Political Science Leonard & Claire Tow Professor, 2015/2016 Brooklyn College, CUNY Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow Department of Political Science University of Ibadan This paper is excerpted from Okome, Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké & Afia Serwaa Zakiya, eds. Women’s Political Participation in Nigeria: 2007 General Elections. Ibadan, Nigeria: Bookbuilders, 2013; and "Beyond the Numbers: Women's Political Participation in the Commonwealth." Discussion Paper presented at 9th CHOGM, in Bridgetown, Barbados. June 2, 2010. It was updated with information garnered from research inclusive of media reports of N...