After gathering dozens of
testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students
inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana.
Academic institutions in
West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by
lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never
proven.
Female reporters were
sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at
the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras.
Reporter Kiki Mordi, who
knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens
behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities
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