Jessie Kabwila

Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula is a Malawian academic, feminist, educator and activist. Her scholarship focuses on African feminism. She was chair of the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus and in 2025 she became the Minister of Higher Education. She lost her seat in the 2025 Malawian general election. Quotes “People out there must know that a woman is a leader, a woman is a citizen, a woman does not apologise for who she is and she is equally a beneficiary of this country”. “The launch of the 2016- 2019 strategic plan is very crucial because if you don’t plan, then you are planning to fail. We look at this as a road map to how we are going to bring back women of Malawi into Parliament,” “We need to empower women and in that way women will have a say and feel honoured and live. Empowerment is a process and it can’t work within a fortnight therefore we need to keep our patience.” External links Category:Living people Category:Academics Category:Feminists Category:Educators Category:Women's rights activists