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InsightShare’s Living Cultures Indigenous Fellowship connects 38 indigenous youth from 6 communities across Africa wishing to harness participatory media as a tool for engaging and mobilising their communities. We are working with Indigenous Peoples of Africa to ensure they can access media tools and lead and inspire radical transformations.
Fellows are based in 6 hubs in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Namibia, and they represent some of the oldest indigenous populations on our planet.
The Amadiba hub, based in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, made a film on the nutritious value of traditional food to encourage the local community to consume Indigenous healthy foods. In this film, community members share the elaboration processes and benefits of consuming natural ingredients grown in the region. In addition, elders voice their concerns about the loss of traditional practices and explain how they used to cook these ingredients not too long ago.
On top of that, fellows included a section on traditional medicine to document the ancient ways of treating certain diseases before the community had access to hospitals. These local traditions are still practised along with modern medicine, adapting to today’s lifestyle and diet.
Some community members highlighted the importance of land sovereignty and the benefits of sourcing natural ingredients to grow healthy food, avoiding pesticides to keep healthy soils.
This is one of the six films made by indigenous youth as part of their journey to become participatory video facilitators and establish their own indigenous media hubs across Africa. The Living Cultures Indigenous Fellowship reconnects youth and elders within ancestral homelands, enhancing Indigenous capability to gather and influence civil society through the powerful medium of video.
Our hubs are embarking on pilgrimages to sacred sites, forests and local communities to speak with elders about the impacts of climate change. We are screening these films during COP26 and will host online Q&A sessions with the Indigenous filmmakers.
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