{"id":48690,"date":"2025-09-16T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=48690"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:01:51","slug":"report-polarisation-and-democracy-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/report-polarisation-and-democracy-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"[REPORT] Polarisation and Democracy in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"439\">Affective political polarisation in West Africa is deepening as partisan loyalty increasingly overrides national interest. This report explores how affective polarisation<strong data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"260\">, <\/strong>the tendency for opposing political groups to view each other with hostility, undermines social cohesion and trust, weakens democratic institutions, and fuels instability across the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"739\">Authored by Professor E. Gyimah-Boadi and Dr. Kamal Yakubu, this publication forms part of the Media Foundation for West Africa\u2019s quarterly webinar series on \u201cPolarisation and Democracy in West Africa\u201d, which seeks practical paths toward depolarisation and social cohesion in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1068\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Polarization-and-Democracy-in-West-Africa-Prof-E.-Gyimah-Boadi-and-Dr-Kamal-Yakubu-1.pdf\">here<\/a> to access the report and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HsCZeY9cvn4&amp;pp=0gcJCckJAYcqIYzv\">here<\/a> to access a recording of the webinar where this publication was first presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35394,"featured_media":48691,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[754],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-48690","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-type-reports","report-category-media-for-democracy-good-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/48690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=48690"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=48690"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=48690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}