Women’s International Peace Centre (The Peace Centre) formerly Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis–WICCE) in partnership with Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI),, Food and Climate, Io: Facilitating Spaces for Feminist Conversations and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) invite you to a discussion interrogating elections in Africa on April 27, 2022, at 3:00 p.m (EAT).

Elections are seen as a key ingredient of democratic governance. The discipline of acquiring power through an election is assumed to make governments accountable to citizens, and thereby confer legitimacy- but do they? The current nature of elections or politics makes it hard for women to be in that space of power.

Let’s start a series of conversations on how elections can be organized differently to allow women’s meaningful participation and influence the political process in the African region.