
The business of empowering women
Despite decades of donor funding, the push for women in politics in Nigeria often sidelines real change in favor of workshops, buzzwords, and photo ops—leaving power structures intact.
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Ayisha Osori is a Director in the Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop, and is the author of "Love Does Not Win Elections." She has degrees from the University of Lagos, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School.
Despite decades of donor funding, the push for women in politics in Nigeria often sidelines real change in favor of workshops, buzzwords, and photo ops—leaving power structures intact.
Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.