Face The Nation · Public Town Hall
A civic forum where citizens, evidence and decision-makers meet. Not a rally. Not a press conference. A disciplined public conversation.
Register for a town hallFace The Nation is the Caelus Institute town hall. Each edition centres a question of public consequence and opens the room to lived experience, competing views and practical accountability.
The forum is designed to make public dialogue more informed, more representative and more useful after the microphones are switched off.
Latest from the room · Kisumu
Citizens gathered at Aga Khan Hall to examine county accountability, public safety, livelihoods and Kenya's political road to 2027.
Read the forum summary, watch the full Political Headache recording and explore the photographic story from inside the room.
Enter the Kisumu town hallUpcoming · Countdown 2027
The series moves from who votes, to who pays, to what citizens expect government to deliver. Each room is designed to produce a public record that lasts beyond the afternoon.
The Register, The Map, and Who Gets Counted
Who is allowed to vote in 2027, and on whose map?
A public explainer on boundary-review deferral, a voter-register verification guide and on-record commitments on register transparency.
What Kenyan Politics Costs, and Who Pays It
Who funds a campaign—and who gets hurt in one?
A tracker of political-violence incidents and case status, alongside a citizen's guide to campaign-finance disclosure.
The Citizens' Demand Sheet for 2027
What do we actually want the next government to do?
A published Citizens' Demand Sheet 2027 and a practical framework for measuring every manifesto against it.
Industrial Area, Nairobi
Doors open at 1:30PM
English and Kiswahili; Sheng welcome from the floor.
Editorial disclosure: Countdown 2027 is convened by Political Headache, an independent KoaMedia editorial product. It sets the agenda and chooses the questions; no party, candidate or organisation buys a panel seat.
Register your interestRegistration
Register as an attendee, contributor, convening partner, mobilisation organisation, funder or member of the media. We will follow up with the relevant information.
The model
A poll or focused research brief establishes what people are experiencing and the questions the forum must confront.
Citizens, practitioners and decision-makers respond to the same evidence in a moderated public forum.
We release the findings, key arguments, commitments and an accessible record of what the conversation changed.
Forum standard
The discussion starts with published findings and a clearly framed public question.
The public is not used as a backdrop. Questions and experiences shape the forum.
Moderation invites disagreement, tests claims and rejects political performance.
Every edition produces a public summary so the value continues beyond the event.
