03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Kingsley N. T. Bangwell, founder and project director of longtime NED partner Younstars Development Initiative, discussed the role of youth in strengthening the democratic transition in Nigeria.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
In her presentation, Dr. Medha Nanivadekar examined the contradiction between an excess of quotas for women at the local level and their deficit at the state and national levels. She argued that equal access to power at the highest levels would not only boost perceptions of women’s political power but would ultimately result in reduced individual vulnerability to gender-based violence and discrimination.
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Sponsored by: Fellows
In his presentation, H. Kwasi Prempeh assessed these viewpoints and explained how conventional approaches to constitution-writing in Africa have left in place some of the most problematic features of its authoritarian past.
