The Citizen is a pan-African civic media platform built on a simple idea: all voices matter. It gives ordinary citizens across Africa a space to discuss the topical issues that shape their lives and the development of their communities — through The Citizen Show, the Citizen Podcast, the blog and a newsletter. By moving the microphone from experts to the people actually living the issues, The Citizen turns development debates into open, accessible conversations that anyone can join.
For citizens, engaged young people, civil-society voices and communities across Africa who want to debate the issues that affect development — and to be heard, not just spoken to.
A video show that puts topical issues up for debate with the people they affect.
Longer conversations to listen to anywhere, digging into the issues in depth.
Op-eds and analysis written by citizens and civil-society voices.
The essentials of the conversation, straight to your inbox.