Biography of jessie kabwila kapasula

  • Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula is a Malawian academic, feminist, educator and activist.
  • Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula is an academic, feminist, educator and activist.
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    Dr. Jessie Kabwila

    Hon. Dr. Jessie Kabwila is a politician, academic, and feminist. Member of Parliament in Malawi, she is currently the Chairperson of the Women Parliamentary Caucus. 

    iKNOW Politics: In 2014, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency and the number of women parliamentarians went down from 43 to 33 (22.3% to 16.7%). Today, Malawi is ranked 120th worldwide when it comes to women’s representation in Parliament. How do you explain this decline in women’s political representation and the lack of women’s engagement in Malawian politics?

    Hon. Dr. Jessie Kabwila: In many ways, Malawi is suffering a backlash of having a woman become president. The challenges that Joyce Banda met are usually exacted on all women who want to be leaders, especially leaders in the political arena. The lack of women’s engagement is mostly caused by the discrimination that women face due to patriarchy in Malawi, at religion and indigenous cultural levels. In addi

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    Jessie Kabwila

    Malawian academic, feminist, educator and activist

    Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula is a Malawian academic, feminist, educator and activist.[1] Her scholarship focuses on African feminism. She was chair of the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus and in 2025 she became the Minister of Higher Education.

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    Kabwila-Kapasula was the acting president of the Chancellor College Academic Staff Union that was fired during the standoff to ensure academic freedom at the University of Malawi that hasn't been resolved.[2] She is one of the fired lecturers at the center of the standoff for academic freedom that occurred at University of Malawi (UNIMA) that resulted in her dismissal. This prompted protests from the UNIMA students and faculty that stood in solidarity with Kabwila-Kapasula and the eventual closure of the university. It led to a standoff between President Bingu wa Mutharika and the lecturers. Her dismissal centering academic freedom was al

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    Why threaten the lives of Dr. Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula, Chancellor College Academic personal Union Acting President and Dorothy Ngoma, National Association of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi Executive Director? We need an answer from the powers-that-be on this, knowing that these unfortunate incidents are happening after President Bingu wa Mutharika told his Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) följare to deal with his critics. Dr. Kabwila-Kapasula no longer sleeps at her home in Zomba. Ngoma is in hiding, fearing for her life. Kabwila-Kapasula is being targeted simply because she seats at the head of Chanco academic personal. But issues she presents are not her own (issues), they are facts of representation. So, too, Ngoma: she is fighting for fairness and respect for human rights. Her involvement with the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC)- which Mutharika's government claims is brottsligt because of its failure to lista with the Council for Non-governmental Organisations in missfoster