Democratic Reversal and Restoration in West Africa
Channel: International IDEA
Date: 07/12/2021

The webinar seeks to draw global attention to emerging democratic developments in West Africa and the concerns of continued democratic decline in the sub-region. The webinar will also explore emerging youth mobilisation as an expression of democratic aspirations and call to defend democracy as enshrined in the ECOWAS Protocol. The webinar will make recommendations addressed to global actors at the Democracy Summit.

DISCUSSION PANEL

- Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Head of the Centre for Advanced Study of Democracy and Development at the Wits University School of Governance, Johannesburg

- Dr. Emmanuel Akwete, Executive Director, Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Ghana

- Ms. Nana Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)

- Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim, Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development- West Africa (CDD-West Africa)