When Aminata Sesay decided to run for the Port Loko District seat in 2023, she knew it would be tough. She did not expect to be shot at.
The retired nurse had returned from the United Kingdom to enter the race, only to find her native Sierra Leone a "bloody and violent" electoral climate, just as friends and family had forewarned it would be.
As she would later find, this is the norm for women in politics across Africa, compounding the financial and political strains already obstructing their paths to power.
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