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| Simbiat Amzat participates in the co-creation session at the Young Political Leadership Co-Creation Lab, organised by the OMYV Alumni Network in Abuja, with support from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Nigeria |
What does it take to move from criticising a system to becoming part of it? What happens when years of watching things go wrong lead you to step forward and try to change them yourself?
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Image culled from ElectHER’s They Don’t Trust the Process. They’re Showing Up Anyway, which draws on responses from 805 women across Nigeria. |
There is something unsettling about asking people to keep believing in a process that has given them reasons to doubt it.
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| Image by Shades of Us |
Not too long ago, civic participation was something we associated with public squares, community meetings, and peaceful protests. Today, those same conversations have found a new home online. Across Africa, digital platforms have become places where citizens organise relief efforts, expose injustice, demand accountability and amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard. A single post can mobilise communities. A video can spark national conversations. A hashtag can unite thousands in pursuit of justice.