Why African Authoritarian Regimes Promote Women Leaders: The Case of Uganda
WEBINAR
Time: 25 August 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
Place: Zoom Webinar
This seminar explores how and why ruling parties in African authoritarian regimes have promoted women as leaders through the use of quotas after the introduction of multi-party systems, especially after the early 1990s.
They have done so, research shows, primarily in order to further entrench their rule by instrumentalising women’s rights.
This, however, poses a conundrum, which the seminar explores: As women’s movements demand and gain increased political representation, the greater the risk that women’s inclusion is used to prop up illegitimate authoritarian regimes. Join this webinar on 25 August.
Keynote speaker:
Aili Mari Tripp, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America
Discussants:
Josephine Ahikire, Associate Professor, Makerere University, Uganda
Elin Bjarnegård, Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
Moderator:
Diana Højlund Madsen, Senior researcher, The Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden
Opening remarks by Therese Sjömander Magnusson, Director, The Nordic Africa Institute
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