Rwanda: Against All Odds - Women Who Made It to Parliament

18 September 2013

The just concluded parliamentary elections featured women who didn't ask for equality and leadership to be handed to them on a platter. They chose to fight it out with male candidates for their respective positions. They spent weeks of vigorous campaigning and some of them were evaluated according to their previous performance.

Juliana Kantengwa.

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