Sahel on Sahel

Collaborative visual anthropology

CADED - Centre des Archives Digital, Education et Dissémination

About CADED

The Centre for Digital Archives, Education and Dissemination (CADED) is one of the four pillars of the Sahel on Sahel: Collaborative Visual Anthropology project. This digital resource platform is designed to archive, disseminate, and develop educational tools based on the existing and new visual material from the Sahel on Sahel project. The Centre collects, stores, and provides open access to students' M.A. theses, dissertations, scientific and professional papers, research data, books, teaching materials, images, films, videos, audio files, presentations, and digitised materials.

Activities include the following:

➢       Archives - films, photos, and written documents 

VISCAM 

➢       Education -Digital Learning Tools 

➢       Dissemination - films from the Sahel 

 
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In collaboration with the TV station D3, Bamako, Mali the Sahel on Sahel project has now launched a TV series.

We want our anthropological films to be screened and discussed in the places and regions where the films originate. Anthropological film shows that life is lived in many places. In various ways. Making such films available to the people and communities featured in them is a matter of course. We believe they can contribute to discussions and reflections that help raise awareness and perhaps find solutions to the phenomena the films address. It is also important that “the others,” people from outside, see the films. They can help foster greater understanding between people and between societies — something that is important in our world, which is increasingly marked by polarization.

 
 
 

In the first episode, Sahel, Zoom sur l'anthropologie visuel, moderated by D3’s own Fousseyni Maiga, the Sahel on Sahel project is introduced, along with visual anthropology as a discipline and why we are using this approach in the Sahel. The program also introduces the Norwegian coordinator Trond Waage and the project coordinator in Bamako, Sidy Lamine Bagayoko.

The episode Sahel, Zoom sur l'anthropologie visuel can be seen here

In the second episode three short films are presented. First, a film about a young migrant, Emanuel, from Benin who lives in Niamey, Niger. Emanuel loves music and is creative. In his small workshop he makes, among other things, Bluetooth speakers out of empty plastic jerrycans. The second film, "Married at 13, 13 Years Ago," follows the life of a young woman and what this early marriage meant for her life. The third film is an intimate portrait of 12‑year‑old Mody, who, together with his family, was forced to flee from the Mopti region to Bamako after his village was attacked by terrorists.

The second episode Sahel, des histoires authentiques pour un autre narratif can be seen here

The third episode, "Djènèba, un film école de Bata Diallo," is a review and analysis of a film made by Bata Diallo about Djènèba and the household she leads in southern Mali. The film has been screened in many countries and is an excellent example of what can be learned by getting close to people’s everyday lives.

The thrid episode Djènèba, un film école de Bata Diallo, can be seen here