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Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang Elected As Ghana’s First Female Vice President

By Noël James and Uma Fox Ghanaians Celebrate Win for Gender-Inclusivity in Politics  Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang—a member of the National Democratic Congress party (NDC)—has been elected as the next vice president of Ghana, making her the first woman to hold this position. A former minister of education and professor of literature, Opoku-Agyemang will join President John Dramani Mahama, who previously […]

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Has COVID-19 Pushed Women in Politics off Kenya’s Agenda?

In 2013, Alice Wahome ran in her third attempt to win the hotly-contested Kandara constituency parliamentary seat in Murang’a County, Central Kenya. As is typical of rural politics, the field was male-dominated, with the stakes being high for all candidates but more especially so for Wahome — no woman had ever occupied the Kandara constituency […]

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