Balungile Ntshangase, lives in the rural village of Gobodweni in the Amadiba area of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. She is a farmer, the co-founder of Youth Voice Out, a group that discusses teenage pregnancy in her village, and part of the Amadiba participatory video team, the latest Indigenous community media hub to join the…
Ayanda Mncwabe-Mama’s video explores the richness of African identity in Mnqaba James village, South Africa, stating ‘our being and value as Africans is within’. Through interviews with three residents of Mnqaba James village on COVID-19, this richness is amplified and refuses to become one neat perspective. Although they all agree that the international response to…
I have always been fascinated by stories: by how we form them, how we share them, who’s telling them. When I discovered InsightShare, I was relieved beyond measure to discover a group of people who’d been working for many years with story telling in a way that was honest, transparent, empowering and inclusive: instead of…
Last Month, I went to Oxford for InsightShare Participatory Video (PV) Training of Facilitators. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect and had no clue how you can actually facilitate a Participatory Video method. In only 6 days, I learnt to facilitate group exercises for participants to use the camera, shoot, edit, produce AND screen! And…
