“THE BATTLE TO CHANGE AFRICA DOESN’T ONLY EXIST IN AFRICA”, SAYS CHUDE JIDEONWO AS THE HOW TOWIN ELECTIONS IN AFRICA BOOK TOUR CONTINUES IN ATLANTA, BOSTON AND PENNSYLVANIA
How to Win Elections in Africa: Parallels with Donald Trump, the new book by StateCraft Inc. co-founders, Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams, continued its tour around the United States of America with stops at the Harvard University, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and in Atlanta, Georgia on the 25, 28, and 29 November respectively.
The American tour kicked off on 8 November with the launch at Yale University and the book is resonating strongly with academic and intellectual circles. On 25 November, this year, Chude Jideonwo joined the hosts of the AfroBuzz podcast: Bebe, Nunoo and James, Remi Makanjuola, and Toks Ogun, for a chat about the lessons from the book, the unique experiences of StateCraft Inc. and its work on elections in Africa, the business of nation-building, and the urgency for a newer generation of Africans who are directly involved in the politics of the continent in their respective countries. The talk was followed by a book signing event.
Described by Jideonwo as being “essentially about all the things that make elections happen globally and the order in which they matter or don’t matter in sub-Saharan African contexts, as seen through our experience in four national elections in three countries,” ‘How to Win’ has also become a go-to resource material on issues connected with democracy, elections and campaigns in the world. On Wednesday, 28 November, Jideonwo shared his thoughts about the parallels between America, American events and the rest of the world, especially in the context of development in an interview with the BBC Public Radio International’s The World series.
The interview preceded two further discussions: the first at the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Peace, Democracy and Development at the UMass Boston Campus Center in Boston and another at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession where Jideonwo was interviewed by Kenneth Ononeze Okwor for the Harvard African Policy Journal.
‘How to Win Elections in Africa: Parallels with Donald Trump’ United States of America book tour will continue in the coming days with book discussions in Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. on Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 December, 2017.
The discussion in Pennsylvania will be about governance and politics in the context of building businesses and creating value in and for Africa at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania while the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies will host the discussion in Washington D.C.
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How to Win Elections in Africa: Parallels with Donald Trump
‘How to Win Elections in Africa: Parallels with Donald Trump’ explores how citizens, through elections, can uproot the power structures governing them. Using examples from within and outside Africa, this book examines the past and present to map a future where the political playing field is level and citizens can rewrite existing narratives.
About StateCraft Inc.
StateCraft Inc. (www.statecraftinc.com) is a nation building company with deep expertise in elections, policy, governance, citizen engagement, and citizen action – with work spanning West, East and Southern Africa.
In 2017, it was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the SABRE Awards for PR Campaigns for its work in designing and executing best-in-class PR and communication strategy in presidential elections.
About Chude Jideonwo
Jideonwo is the Editor-in-Chief of Y!/YNaija.com. He is also co-founder and managing partner of parent group RED, which governance communication firm StateCraft Inc, ran the successful anti-establishment campaigns for the current Presidents of Nigeria and Ghana. His work focuses on social movements shaking up and transforming nations through governance and faith, with the media as a tool. He teaches media and communication at the Pan-Atlantic University. In 2017, he was selected as a World Fellow at Yale University. This is his second book. His first, “Are we the Turning Point Generation” remains a national bestseller.
About Adebola Williams
Adebola Williams is Founding Partner of RED, a media and communications juggernaut based in Lagos, Nigeria. He has over the past decade, committed his life to championing media solutions with the aim of inspiring Nigeria’s and Africa’s youths. Adebola Williams was also the main strategist behind the communication of President Muhammadu Buhari during his presidential campaign in 2015. He deployed digital and traditional strategies that were used in galvanising a nation to achieve a previously thought impossible feat in Nigeria: voting out an incumbent government.
Publisher
Farafina is an imprint of Kachifo Limited, an independent publishing house founded in 2004 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. Kachifo Limited is a child of optimism, born at a time when globalisation was beginning to take root in the world. There was a need for a platform from which African stories could be told without any self-consciousness or external guidance. With over 120 titles published from authors like Tendai Huchu, Yejide Kilanko, Ben Okri, Nnedi Okorafor, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yewande Omotoso, Chude Jideonwo and Ngugi wa Thiong’O; Kachifo is on to something and it looks forward to publishing even more.
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