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Standpoint | 77 When Exploitation is Camouflaged as Women Empowerment: The case of Malawi’s first female president Joyce Banda Juliet Kamwendo & Gregory Kamwendo Introduction Despite many years of struggles to get out of the malaise of underdevelopment, the African continent is still trapped in conditions that dehumanize and marginalize a large segment of the population, particularly women. The motivation for writing this paper stems from our realization that exploitation of women in politics can sometimes be camouflaged as “women’s empowerment”. This is illustrated by the experience of Malawi’s first female president, Joyce Banda, who was initially used instrumentally to advance President Bingu wa Mutharika’s ambition for a second presidential term of office. Once Mutharika had been elected, Joyce Banda was harassed, castigated and marginalized and ultimately fired from the ruling party in 2010. Despite this, the constitution allowed her to stay on as vice state president, much to the disappointment of President Bingu wa Mutharika, who had hoped that removing her from the ruling party would create room for his younger brother, Peter Mutharika, to run as the ruling party’s presidential candidate in 2014. However, Bingu wa Mutharika died suddenly of cardiac arrest in 2012, and in accordance with the constitutional provision, Joyce Banda was sworn in as president to complete the presidential term of office. In the ensuing presidential elections of May 2014, Joyce Banda lost to Peter Mutharika. Joyce Banda, while not elected in her own right, was Malawi’s and the Southern African Development Community’s first female president, and second female president on the African continent. In this paper we critically examine what this case reveals about African politics, noting that both SADC and the African Union have expressed commitments to gender equality in politics, and further declared 2015 the year of the African Woman. At the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, there was a very deep concern with issues related to women in power and decision-
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