Political scientist Amina Salihu on women, education and A New Kind of Dance

Amina Salihu’s speech at the Paceworking event hosted by Seye Aina to celebrate International Women’s Month was inspiring and thought provoking so with her permission, I share an excerpt with you. 

Amina Salihu is a political scientist, women’s rights advocate and a farmer. She lectured at the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, worked at the Centre for Democracy and Development. As strategy advisor, she designed the Abuja Town Hall Meetings and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Helpline for government to citizen communication and feedback. The Abuja Town Hall meeting was shortlisted for the German Bertelsmann Stif-tung’s Reinhard Mohn Prize in 2011.

Amina Salihu sits on technical, advisory, panels and committees of many civil society, private sector and government initiatives in Nigeria. She is co – Chair of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund. Her latest book, A New Kind of Dance documents and shares lessons of working with community women in northern Nigeria, during the country’s 2011 elections.

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