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Idayat Hassan, director, Centre for Democracy and Development, West Africa and Udo Jude Ilo, head of Nigeria office for the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), are expected to join other experts to address the decline of democracy in Africa.

The webinar put together by Yale Macmillan Center, Yale Maurice R. Greenberg World fellows Program and Yale African Studies Association is expected to hold on Thursday, November 11.

According to a statement issued by Yale, “the recent trajectory in the region (Africa) suggest that democracy is on the reverse gear in the region.”

“This webinar is designed to interrogate the role of the regional organization in addressing the decline of democracy in the region with the aim of identifying challenges to this role and offering recommendations on how best this important task can be carried out.

“Primarily, the webinar hopes to bring forward perspectives from past and current leaders, and practitioners in the field who are dealing with these challenges on daily basis to provide informed analysis of what the real issues are. 

“We are hoping to situate this conversation within the larger context of global democracy decline and the commonalities in challenges. The conversation is proposed for 90 minutes.”

Other panellists include Mohamed Ibn Chambas, former ECOWAS president and former UN special representative of the secretary-general for West Africa and the Sahel; Kate Baldwin, associate professor of Political Science, Yale University and Juldeh Jalloh, vice president of the Republic of Sierra Leone.

Eddie Mandhry, director for Africa & the Middle East, Yale University, will be moderating the event.

To register for the event, click here.