This article discusses the African cohort's contribution to the "re-inventing democracy in the digital era" project, funded by a UN Democracy Fund. The project involved almost 100 youth from five regions of the globe in deliberating upon the future of democracy, using a methodology called structured dialogical design. We explain the utility of this methodology for aiding processes of deliberative democracy. We focus on the Africa cohort's (collective) identification of current challenges and

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... isioning of corrective actions for democracy in the digital age; we justify our choice and point out that many of their suggestions apply to other regions too.