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Rural women process and sell shea butter

June 20, 2012

Introductory music, then fade under host and out. HOST : Good day, welcome to Radio Jigiya, broadcasting from Zégoua, Mali on 100 MHZ. We are a private radio station that broadcasts information for rural communities. Dear listeners in Mali, in the Ivory Coast, and in Burkina Faso, today we present an interview with the President…

Appropriate farming tools for African women farmers

June 20, 2012

Signature tune to introduce the programme. HOST: Good morning (afternoon, evening). Women farmers produce most of our food. Yet women face many problems finding farm tools that are appropriate for them. Traditionally men are in charge of livestock, and most traction equipment is too heavy for women. In many countries, there is a taboo against…

Fonio

June 20, 2012

CHARACTERS: LAMINE TOGOLA: radio presenter/producer MR. MODIBO GOITA: USC Coordinator MRS. TOURE DJENEBOU SIBIDE: Secretary General for the organization ‘Network of Women for Local Development’ MRS. SELLY OUANE: coordinator of the Kitchen Collective program 10 seconds of introductory music to open show. LAMINE TOGOLA: Today’s episode of Faso Ntuloma talks about fonio and gender. Fonio…

No more female genital cutting: Villages in Senegal celebrate 10 years of women’s rights

June 20, 2012

HOST: Good morning (afternoon, evening) and welcome to the program. Today we will be talking to Maimuna Traoré and Mariéme Traoré. These two women are from Malicounda, Senegal, and are part of a group of women who first declared that their village would no longer practice female genital cutting. The 10th Anniversary of this Malicounda…

Maternal postpartum depression

June 4, 2012

CHARACTERS: Shakina: A 45- year-old grandmother who clings to the old way of life in her village Ashanti: A 42-year-old grandmother concerned about her only daughter Sylvia, who has just had a baby and has not shown up to work today Layla: A 32-year-old mother of two girls and a friend of Sylvia Johari: A…

Violence against women and HIV/AIDS

June 4, 2012

DOMINIC MUTUA MAWEU: Hello dear listener, this is Radio Mang’elete FM in central Kenya, and my name is Dominic Mutua Maweu. Today, I present to you the Imanyiliile programme which I am very sure has been a great help to you and you love it! In the Kikamba language, Imanyiliile means “Take care. There is danger!”…

Financial Management For Smallholder Farmers

June 4, 2012

PRESENTER: Its time for Farming As Business (Ulimi Ndi Bizinezi). Signature tune up and fade under presenter. PRESENTER: The time to learn and the time to share agricultural knowledge is finally here on Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1. This is the Farming As Business program. My name is Andrew Mahiyu. (Pause) Harvesting time is over. Most of…

Seeing The Difference: Project Makes Farming More Attractive By Improving Farming Methods And Income

June 4, 2012

HOST: In Uganda, farming employs more than 3 of every 4 persons aged 10 years and older. Of the more than five million households in Uganda, 75 percent are engaged in agriculture and 68 percent derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture. Though the contribution of the agricultural sector to Uganda’s gross domestic product is lessening somewhat…

Maternal Health, Part Two

June 4, 2012

CHARACTERS: Azuma (Tontie’s wife, also a daughter-in-law to Halosu) Tontie (Azuma’s husband, Halosu’s grown-up son) Halosu (Tontie’s mother, mother-in-law to Azuma) Nurse (A community health nurse, who pays routine visits to the community) SYNOPSIS: Azuma, who got married to Tontie in the first part of this drama, is in labour at home, being attended to…

Maternal Health, Part One

June 4, 2012

CHARACTERS Meeri Haduong (two women friends married into the same clan, the Buwa clan) SETTING: rural community Scene 1: Gossip on the way to the village waterhole Background to Scene 1: It is the dry season and two women in a hypothetical rural community are on the way to a water hole two miles away to…