This project offers a systematic description and analysis of data-driven evidence on how the new media shape and reshape the political cultures and representation of female Nigerian political actors. It also seeks to provide a scholarly discussion on how the new media discursive practices can enable gender-sensitive/balanced conversations within the Nigerian political space, and how this is expected to contribute to the perception about female politicians and their political output/outlook which previous studies have ignored.

The project will involve the construction of a corpus of the discourses of female politicians in Nigeria. Part of this repository would be made available to the public upon the conclusion of this research. The study will have great implications for the Nigerian political system, where women are believed to be largely marginalised. The corpus would also be of immense help in future research on the manifestations of gender in [Nigerian] politics.

Head of Project

Dr. Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi