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"Dealers" and "Troco"Now Launching....
(Mozambique, Zambia)
<>How
does love, the Mafia, and friends and
family, combine to leave a woman
desperate, and a community torn apart??
Find out on Dealers – a
new 13-part radio 
drama produced
by CMFD for the IOM's
Southern African Counter-Trafficking
Programme. Launching in
radio stations in June
2008. Read More...
<>drama produced
by CMFD for the IOM's
Southern African Counter-Trafficking
Programme. Launching in
radio stations in June
2008. Read More..."Dealers"
Trailer (1.1MB)
"Dealers" Theme Music
"Troco" Trailer (1.53 MB)
"Troco" Theme Music (1.5 MB)
"Dealers" Theme Music
"Troco" Trailer (1.53 MB)
"Troco" Theme Music (1.5 MB)
"Crossroads"
Coming soon...
(Kenya)
What
happens, when you bring together a frustrated market trader frantically
looking for her missing daughter, a corrupt police officer, and a magic
potion that makes them experience life in each others bodies? – Find
out at the “Crossroads!”
Listen to the trailer
Listen to the theme music
Crossroads is part of the Media for Women’s Rights (MEWOR) Project, an innovative 3-year multi-media initiative launched by The African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) and FAHAMU Networks for Social Justice in collaboration with partners across Eastern and Western Africa, to get people talking and acting on women’s rights.
(Kenya)
What
happens, when you bring together a frustrated market trader frantically
looking for her missing daughter, a corrupt police officer, and a magic
potion that makes them experience life in each others bodies? – Find
out at the “Crossroads!”Listen to the trailer
Listen to the theme music
Crossroads is part of the Media for Women’s Rights (MEWOR) Project, an innovative 3-year multi-media initiative launched by The African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) and FAHAMU Networks for Social Justice in collaboration with partners across Eastern and Western Africa, to get people talking and acting on women’s rights.
Recent Training &
Capacity Building....
Covering Elections
Luanda, Angola
This
two-week workshop built the knowledge
and capacity of radio journalists to investigate and report on
elections processes and the upcoming September elections in Angola.
This
workshop involved participants from three radio stations - Radio
Despertar, Radio Nacional De Angola, and Radio Igreja.
Creating
Voter Information and Education Radio Spots
Luanda, Angola
Luanda, Angola
The
aim of the workshop was to increase capacity of the political
spokespeople to undertake voter education, encouraging people to vote,
and be aware of the issues. More specifically the workshop focused on
the development of a series of radio spots, or public service
announcement that could be aired to encouraged voter awareness leading
up to the September elections.
Reporting Local Governance and Community Participation
Pemba, Mozambique
With training and
on-site production provided by CMFD Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
organised a 5-day workshop to build the interest, knowledge and
capacity of radio journalists to investigate and report on local
governance, issues, and initiatives affecting the community
Reporting on Women’s Rights
Maputo, Mozambique
Designed
and implemented by CMFD and supported by Konrad
Adenauer Stiftung, this 5-day workshop brought together 8 women radio
journalists from community and national radio stations in Mozambique
fro 5 - 8 December to build capacity on and create 4
Portuguese-language radio programmes on reporting women's rights within
legal frameworks.
(South Africa & Mozambique)
aimed at empowering migrants and encouraging pan-Africanism. Part of the project is reasearch to look at how music is and can be used for social change in Africa, and issues around xenophobia.
Read more.
Counter-Trafficking Community Theatre
(South Africa & Mozambique)
Photo: Alertos Da Vida
Launched
on 24 November, Khuluma Afrika! is a Portuguse, Zula,
Shangaan and English production combining music, dance and drama to raise
awareness
of human trafficking in South Africa, especially among the Mozambican
community.
Produced for the International
Organization for
Migration's
Southern African Counter-Trafficking
Programme's
the production has been mounted in
community
venues where there are a large number of Mozambican
migrants,
especially in mining communities. 
(South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone)
As part of a three-part
project with FAHAMU and local
partners,
CMFD worked with rural women in Southern, East and West Africa to
produce
radio/ podcast programmes about women's rights, especially related to
rural
women.
Read more and listen to programmes...Humbanane - a musical call to end violence against women in all forms
With
Funding
from the Global Fund For Women CMFD and Alertos Da Vida Produced three
songs
in Shangaan that talk about women's rights, migration, trafficking, and
discrimination.
Involving over 15 musicians including Feya Faku, Louis Mhlanga,
Mlingisi
Gegana, Jackee, Judith Mudau, Edith Mudau, Femi, Ayanda Sikade,
Trevor
Smith, and many more including the Alertos Da Vida group, these funky
tunes
were released to radio stations Read more and listen to the music