''Love Does Not Win Elections'' is a
political book by Nigerian author and lawyer
Ayisha Osori
Ayisha Osori is a Nigerian lawyer, author, international development consultant, journalist and politician known for her work on good governance, gender equality, women economic and political participation and ending violence against women in Nig ...
. It was published in 2017 by
Narrative Landscape Press.
Development
In 2014 Osori contested the primaries for a seat in the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...
under the
People's Democratic Party but lost. After she was defeated, she wrote the book as a documentary of her experience.
Plot summary
Osori wrote mostly about the gender biased system in the Nigerian electoral system. The book provides insight into the role that money plays in Nigerian elections.
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Reception
It was listed as a must read on Nigerian politics by ''Daily Trust
Media Trust is a privately held Nigerian newspaper publishing company based in Abuja that publishes the English-language ''Daily Trust'', ''Weekly Trust'', ''Sunday Trust'' and the Hausa-language ''Aminiya'' newspapers, as well as a new pan-Afric ...
''.The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington m ...
'' said "It's a sharp, witty and often infuriating narrative of how patronage politics, sexism and ethnicity can confound candidates."[
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References
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2017 non-fiction books
Political books
Nigerian non-fiction books