Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T12:46:01.892Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Dr. Kadi Sesay: Sierra Leone Feminist and Advocate for Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Lynda R. Day
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers of America’s world-renowned democracy were wealthy, well-educated white males dedicated to throwing off the yoke of British oppression. In Sierra Leone since 1995, the person most associated with democracy is a petite, articulate, beautiful, in-your-face, dynamo of a woman named Dr. Kadi Sesay. Though Dr. Sesay’s job arises from a national emphasis on civic education for the masses, her work bears special scrutiny for its success in concretizing a feminist vision of female power articulated within the context of empowerment for all the country’s citizens.

Type
Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 19 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1997 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

Lynda R. Day is currently assistant professor of Africana Studies at CUNY-Brooklyn College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin for her work on female chiefs in Sierra Leone

References

Notes

1. Author’s interview with Kadi Sesay. July 2, 1995. Freetown, Sierra Leone.

2. National Commission for Democracy, First Working Document (February 1995) typescript, 1-2.

3. Ibid., 2.

4. Author’s interview with Kadi Sesay. July 2, 1995. Freetown, Sierra Leone.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. National Commission for Democracy, First Working Document (February 1995) typescript, 6, 13-14.

9. Author’s interview with Kadi Sesay. July 21, 1995. Freetown, Sierra Leone.

10. Author’s interview with Kadi Sesay. July 26, 1995. Freetown, Sierra Leone.

11. National Commission for Democracy, Project Proposal (March 1995) typescript, 2-6.

12. K-Roy Stevens and Bernadette Cole, “Sierra Leone’s Date with Destiny,” West Africa (March 1996).

13. Author’s interview with Kadi Sesay. July 2, 1995. Freetown, Sierra Leone.