Despite various criticisms against the media, community radio has made its mark globally as a medium for facilitating community development. While communities face various problems and deliberate on how to solve them, community radio has continuously played pivotal role in providing platforms for engagement among community members, policy makers and non-governmental organizations as they navigate change together. This paper looks at the role that Forte FM plays in providing such developmental opportunities to the community of Alice, where it broadcasts from. The theoretical framework for this study relies on dialogic communication as a normative theory of participatory communication as propounded by Paolo Freire (1973) and the democratic-participant theory, as the study unpacks how participation and communication on radio, help to facilitate development. The study adopts qualitative research method and two focus group discussions were conducted in two areas in Alice among selected listeners of the radio station, while in-depth interview was conducted with the radio station manager to know their views. Study findings revealed that community radio helps to bring change to communities by facilitating discussions and proffer solutions on topical community issues such as poor service delivery, gender-based violence and health issues among others. Additionally, the findings noted that community radio continues to give a voice to the voiceless and facilitates various opportunities for development.
