DEPA - Sierra Leone Filmmaking Project

The aim of the filmmaking project was to train 40 young people (age 18-30) in Freetown (capital of Sierra Leone) in the use of mobile phones to develop documentary and artistic storytelling that would convey messages of peace. The 82 files in this item are the video recordings of the filmmaking training process The Salone DEPA project in Sierra Leone was a part of DEPA (Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa). DEPA was a 4-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC) addressing the question: What are the different knowledges and values underpinning peace and how can these practices be connected and compared across countries to create curriculum content and modes of delivery in informal and formal settings, Secondary and Higher Education (HE), in order to decolonise peace education?