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Page Reviews for Mapenzi Tamu (sweet love)
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- 5 out of 5 - I found this page very useful because I am a strong advocate of entertainment education (edutainment). I find the impact more long lasting and real. Change is a gradual process that can not be attained overnight. However, when change information is made to be part of our life through avenues of entertainment as drama, we get entertained and keep reliving the experience. We share the jokes with friends, discuss and debate issues raised. With time, the message becomes part and percel of us: we unconsciously avoid the negative and embrace the positive.
This is the method that was used traditionally in Africa as there were hardly formal set ups to educate. Nonetheless, people still learnt alot through informal methods: storytelling, riddles, proverbs, folksongs, initiation ceremonies etc. I believe this is the best way forward in handling the issue of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
I confirmed this when I participated in production of youth radio drama for a period of three years. As we did role playing, after a while most of us found it easy to do what we simply acted e.g. taking HIV test, accommodating PLWAs etc. I believe more research is needed here, especially in African set-up.
Rosemary Nyaole - Kowuor
Communication Lecturer
Daystar University, kenya
- 5 out of 5 - how can i watch that play and do that cast still perform and where?
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