In Africa politics are often seen as an older man’s game, despite the average age of people on the continent being 19, and women outnumbering men by about 1-million, writes LindiMazibuko.
Did you know that Sub-Saharan Africa is home to only 9,783 parliamentarians of any description? This is according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Geneva-based global organisation for national parliaments, which has
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