In October 2025, DemocracyNext hosted a convening in Banjul, The Gambia, with a group of facilitators, academics, civil society actors, researchers, and funders supporting democratic innovation from across Africa.
This convening was an opportunity to connect with each other, learn about, and reflect on recent experiences with citizens’ assemblies and other democratic innovations from across the continent. Their intention, and one of the outcomes, was to seed the establishment of an African network of people working on democratic innovations.
The participants were from The Gambia, Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco, France/Guinea Bissau, and South Africa, along with virtual participation from Malawi.
