Frontline Youth Creativity Initiative (FYCI) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation working to empower young girls and boys to speak out against ills in society. Founded in 2021 with headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, FYCI believes that the creative arts are a powerful force that can be utilised to drive discourses that influence critical stakeholders to make sustainable changes for the good of society.

We aim to address some of the political, socio-cultural and economic vices in Nigeria and Africa as a whole by promoting positive virtues through creative means such as music/rap, spoken word, poetry, prose, drama, fine art, photography/videography, creative writing, dance, etc. Some of the vices we aim to address are poor political participation among young people, gender inequality, low self-esteem among young boys and girls, corruption, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

Young people have not been given the appropriate mechanisms to express themselves, which has resulted in a stifling of youth voices. Against this context, our target audiences are young boys/ girls and young adults from whom we seek to elicit positive behaviours and attitudes whilst serving as change agents themselves.