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Bakassi Peace - An AFRICAphoinie Documentary on Peace-building

An excerpt of "Bakassi Peace" (A Documentary on Citizen Peace-buildingin the Bakassi Peninsular of Cameroon). An AFRICAphonie production with support from The United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Directed and narrated by Constantain Mbom, Produced by Mwalimu George Ngwane.

"AFRICAphonie's Bakassi Peace documentary is not just a demonstration on how to approach grassroots peace-building in conflict zones or communities of tension, but also a magisteral lesson on how civil society organizations in Africa can, with limited resources, successfully effect change in local communities through innovative, creative and cost-effecitve strategies that get the full buy-in and support of both the local administration and the target population." Dibussi Tande

Part 1

Part 2

 Note: This is not the complete documentary but highlights put together to meet Youtube's 10-minute limit for videos. If you're interested in the full-length documentary, please contact AFRICAphonie at: Africaphonie2000@ yahoo.co.uk

Movie Review: NKUMA (Female Genital Mutilation)

By Ebenezer Tabot-Tabot, Development Practitioner (Originally published in The Post)

Nkuma (Female Genital Mutilation). An AFRICAphonie Production in Collaboration with OSIWA

There have been many interventions purporting to sensitise communities on the necessity to put an end to the practice of female circumcision, pompously referred to as 'Female Genital Mutilation' (FGM) by development practitioners.

Despite these numerous interventions, the practice still continues in many parts ofCameroon, essentially because the practice is portrayed as an entrenched negative cultural tendency (which it is), and the methods utilised to combat it are necessarily confrontational.

Projects in the Pipeline (Pending Sponsorship)

• Training of trainers’ workshop on the production and marketing of contemporary African Arts and cultural cooperation in West and Central Africa. Part 1 of this workshop (focus on Cameroon) was sponsored by the P.C.F. Netherlands;
• Workshop with film producers, T.V. producers and the Ministry of culture on the production of a T.V. film series in English for private Cameroonian Television;
• Designing Curriculum and training of teacher trainers for Peace Education in Cameroon (Francophone system);
  Empowering disadvantaged book sectors in Cameron (the cases of women and children’s writing) 2006 – 2008;
  Books for Development A workshop bringing together all book stakeholders in Cameroon with the aim of strengthening the book industry through a book policy;
  Building a Peace Resource Centre in Cameroon.

Peace Education Curriculum Design & Training

Designing Curriculum and training of teacher trainers for Peace Education in Cameroon (Anglophone system)

AFRICAphonie organized a one-week training workshop bringing together more than 70 teachers, educationists and curriculum developers to design the content of a teachers’ manual and students’ reader on Peace Education for Junior Secondary School in Cameroon (Anglophone system). A core group is currently working on the Reader and Manual. Publication is due January 2005. The Ministry will be contacted later on for lobbying and advocacy. The Project, which will end in July 2005, is sponsored by U.S.I.P America.