Kvinnors reella yttrandefrihet i Nigeria : En kvantitativ studie om efterlevnaden av den demokratiska institutionen yttrandefrihet i Nigeria

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to investigate womens freedom of speech in the democratic country Nigeria. Furthermore, what other sociodemograhic factor of gender, education level and religious belonging being either majority or minority having the greatest effect on freedom of speech. The approach to be able to study the phenomenons will take on a quantative method to search for the answers to the research questions. The study will also be based on a case study of the country Nigeria located in the African continent. To conduct the research and hypotheses the study will test various theories explanatory assumptions. The idea and goal of the study is to enrich the research on how freedom of speech complies for women in african democratic countries such as Nigeria by analysing their estimation on the freedom of speech. Cross tabulations and multiple linear regressions are performed to see the phenomenons over time since the democratisation 1999 to 2021. The conclusions that can be drawn based on the evidence that was found was that gender affects grading of the freedom of speech in different ways over time, some years for example 1999, 2015 and 2021 women perceived freedom of speech worse than men and 2008 showed the opposite. The effect variabel seeming to affect the outcome variabel freedom of speech to the greatest extent the study can conclude from various analysments to be religion.