Women. Power.
Elections. Africa.
Gender Election Watch Africa provides accessible gender data, analysis, candidate visibility and feminist solidarity infrastructure across African election cycles.
See the continent differently.
African women shape elections as voters, candidates, party leaders, election officials and elected representatives.
GEWA connects their participation with source-linked country evidence on representation, laws, quotas and barriers to political power.
Women candidates.
Who is running, what shapes their campaigns, and why visibility matters.
GEWA highlights women standing for office across Africa and brings together candidate visibility, election context and the conditions that shape participation.
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Lower or single house · reporting year 2026. Countries without a comparable observation are omitted.
What shapes political participation?
Representation figures tell only part of the story.
Electoral laws, political finance, party systems, violence and election management all influence women's ability to enter, compete and lead.
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