The Soul Beat - Edutainment
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Issue 18 of The Soul Beat, the bi-monthly e-newsletter about us-
ing communication for development from Soul Beat Africa, focuses
on Edutainment.
To read the full newsletter, please visit
http://www.comminit.com/africa/soulbeat/soul-beat-18.html
To contribute your own experiences, please e-mail Deborah Walter
<dwalter@comminit.com>
In support of the upcoming Fourth International Entertainment
Education Conference (see
http://www.comminit.com/africa/events_cal/2004/170-event.html),
Soul Beat Africa will be engaging with edutainment professionals
across Africa, to collect information and encourage discussion
and debate. This issue of The Soul Beat highlights some of the
experiences and resources about edutainment from the Soul Beat
Africa network.
Read about activities of the conference organisers Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), along
with South African partners, Soul City, the Centre for AIDS De-
velopment, Research and Evaluation (CADRE), and DramAide.
Journey of Life - Ethiopia
http://www.comminit.com/africa/pds092003/sld-1180.html
Centre 4 TV Medical Drama - Uganda
http://www.comminit.com/africa/pds32003/sld-217.html
Soul City - South Africa
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Pds52004/sld-1734.html
Soul Buddyz - South Africa
http://www.comminit.com/africa/pds32003/sld-595.html
Tsha Tsha - South Africa
http://www.comminit.com/africa/pds12004/sld-1413.html
The issue includes information from the network across Africa.
EXPERIENCES
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences.html
1. Making Entertainment Useful (Soap Summit 2003) - Kenya
The summit examined various forms of interventions from a number
of perspectives, including culture, history, traditional and
evolving values, innovations, language, visual images, and art
as beauty.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/pds092003/sld-1213.html
2. Makgabaneng Radio Serial Drama - Botswana
The drama uses education and entertainment in soap opera format
to address issues about health and HIV/AIDS.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Pds42004/sld-1572.html
3. Puppet Theatre to explore Voter Awareness - Tanzania
Small World Theatre (SWT) collaborated with Tanzanian performers
to find out what prevents people, particularly women in poor
communities, from participating in elections.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Pds52004/sld-1690.html
4. Ekasi - South Africa
Ekasi is an edutainment comic book that disseminates HIV-AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria (HATMAL) information. TGauteng.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Pds52004/sld-1714.html
EVALUATIONS
http://www.comminit.com/africa/evaluation.html
5. Impact Data - Capital Doctor - Uganda
"Capital Doctor was a top programme for high school students in
three districts of Uganda, 26% in Kasese, 75.6% in Luwero and
18.4% in Masindi.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/id2003/sld-27.html
6. Impact Data - Sida Dans La Cité (AIDS in the City) - Côte
d'Ivoire
"About 70 percent of urban people know about the programme and
have seen at least one episode.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/id2004/sld-1633.html
EDUTAINMENT
http://www.comminit.com/africa/edutainment.html
7. Neria Grassroots Distribution Project: Final project report
The Neria Grassroots Distribution Project aimed to dub the fea-
ture film Neria into Shona and Ndebele, to develop support mate-
rials (a video and a manual) and distribute the film via grass-
roots channels.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Edutainment/sld-1678.html
8. Entertainment-Education & HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Field Ex-
periment in Tanzania
"Entertainment-education is the process of designing and imple-
menting an entertainment programme to increase audience members'
knowledge about a social issue, create more favourable atti-
tudes, and change their overt behaviors regarding the social is-
sue.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Edutainment/sld-1680.html
9. Jozi Summit Film Festival: Final Report
This report looks at the overview of the exhibition and educa-
tional film screening activities held during the 2002 World Sum-
mit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Edutainment/sld-1681.html
10. Use of theatre for Development in communicating Health Mes-
sages in Zimbabwe: Concept Paper from Patsimeredu Edutainment
Trust
This paper maps out the background of Patsimeredu Edutainment
Trust, how it uses edutainment, and lessons learned from their
experience.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/Edutainment/sld-1601.html
MATERIALS
http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials.html
11. Indigenous Music for Entertainment - Education: Lessons from
AIDS Batan na ewu eza na (Deadly Killer Disease) in Bida Emir-
ate, Nigeria
BThis publication is a part of a multi-media communication cam-
paign that was designed as community based intervention strategy
to address the need to combat the rate of HIV/AIDS epidemic in
Bida Emirate council of Niger state.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/ma2004/sld-1691.html
12. Steps for the Future Facilitator's Guide
This Guide supports Steps for the Future film series.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/ma102003/sld-1274.html